Show/Order custom content in Main Page Summary

Question

I am developing a site using Ubercart that shows product summaries on the main page (I believe these are called teasers). Each product has a voting widget provided by Vote Up/Down on its actual node/page. I've copied page.tpl.php to page-front.tpl.php because I want to add a small block or box that shows the number of upvotes on the main page (but not actually allow voting here) and finally sort these teasers by popularity (number of votes).

I can see that print $content is outputting this page's content but I am not sure where this is being generated so I can either hook into it or modify directly. I've coded themes and plugins in Wordpress but I don't know Drupal well enough yet.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You should first know what is generating your front-page. Is it Views? Or another module?

If it's Views, you can easily add the vote count from the Drupal backend. If it's another thing, depending on what it is there are ways to change the output.