What is a Teaser?
A summary or extract of a content item. Teasers are often displayed on the front page of a site but may be used on other pages too. By default, the teaser is generated by displaying the first part of a content item. It is common for websites to display content items as teasers. News items, blogs and articles are often displayed in this way because a teaser offers enough information to garner the user's interest without taking up too much page space.

Here are two ways you might produce this type of content:

By promoting a content item to the front page, which means that a teaser for the content item is to be displayed there.

Using special facilities we put into place to put teasers onto a particular page.

In either case, this is an important button to know about:

Separate Drupal Teaser and Body

Where the teaser is the first part of the content, the separation point is chosen automatically, after a certain number of characters.This button allows you to choose the separation point manually. It appears when editing the content item. You can only add one teaser break per content item. If you want an image to appear with your text on the front page of your site then it will need to be inserted ahead of the teaser break, eg. at the beginning of the article.

To select your own teaser point:

place your mouse at the end of your chosen teaser text and click on the 'Separate Drupal Teaser and Body' button.

The following text will then appear, but only while you are in 'Edit' mode:  

Delete any previous teaser breaks.

'Submit' changes.

Important field sets

If you are logged in as an Administrator and editing a content item, the following two field sets will be displayed: 

Comment settings

If your site has been set up to allow visitors to post comments, you need to ensure that the option checked reflects what you want to allow in this case:

'Disabled' means comments are not allowed on this article

'Read only' means that previous comments can be read but no more added

'Read/Write' means previous comments can be read and new ones added.

Publishing options
The second and third options are particularly relevant here:

As always, 'Published' has to be checked if you want the content item to display on your website once it is saved.

'Promoted to front page' means that as well as the article appearing on the page to which you've assigned it, it will also appear on the front page. Talk to us if you want to set a content item to automatically 'unpublish' from the front page after a certain period or date instead of you having to do this manually.

'Sticky at top of lists' means that the teaser, or other item, will display at the top of the page even if there is a more recent content item. (The normal ordering is the most recent content at the top.) This is handy if you'd like a particular teaser to introduce a page or the content item is particularly important.

'Create a new revision' is not generally needed.