Hi!

I'm looking for a news module with just a few more options than news.

News is perfect, except for these features it doesn't have:

· When on a main, or parent category, it doesn't show links to subcategories, and it doesn't generate Smarty items for this to be included by the designer.
· Can't assign weight - order to categories.
· Can't assign weight / order to articles.

The first one is not a problem, I hacked the News module ages ago to do this and more (see http://www.ecro2006.com/eng/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=25)


The third one... well, I can hack date of publishing and make it a weight, but the categories... don't know what to do.

SmartSection can do all this and much more, the problem is that it is way too much for a newbie. Too big burrito, too complicated to manage for people that have never seen a CMS before. If I use Smartsection they'll phone me about three-zillion times a week.

That's it. I need something like News, you know, but able to sort categories and articles manually.


Any suggestions?

Nobody?