The Xoops Project is pleased to inform you of the
Release Candidate 1 of the
News 1.3 module
The News 1.3 RC1 comes with some extra features
Short feature list:- The module respects, everywhere, ALL the permissions.
- A new page
"News by the same author"- Two new links are availables for the article's page,
"Previous article" and "Next article"- You can also add a
"Summary table"- Possibility to
rate news- Authors can edit their posts
- New
RSS feeds per topic> The
topics manager has been completly rewrited
> It's now possible to include topics
as sub-menus of the main menu
> You can use the
Spotlight in
two blocs ("Top news" & "Recent Articles") You can even select between a classical view and a tabbed view
> You can set a
description for each topic
> For each topic you can select if you want to see it on the front page or not.
> The topics titles are longer (255 characters)
> From the admin part of your site, you can
remove (prune) news
> You can
export news to the xml format
> When editing or creating a new article, Approvers and Administrators can
modify and select the author> According to a module's option, you can ask the approvers to enter the
meta keywords and description for each article
> The block to navigate
thru topics has a new option to show the number of news per topic.
> You can use a new block,
"random news", all is in the title.
> You can use the module to create a
newsletter's content.
> You can see (from the admin panel) some
statistics about your
topics, news and
authors.
> You can assign a color to each topic
> Your visitors can now see your
articles in pdf> You can select the editor to use
(dhtml area, spaw, fck editor, htmlarea, simple text area and kiovi)> A new module's option enable you to
highlight (in the articles) the
words used in the
Xoops search.
> You can use
tooltips in your links and title. They contain the first (x) characters of your news.
> For your visitors who are using Mozilla, Firefox and Opera, you can create the
content of the site navigation's barDownloadYou can downoad the package here :
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News 1.3 RC1UpgradeOnce you have uploaded all the files to your website, launch the following script to upgrade (from 1.1 or 1.2) :
http://www.example.com/module/news/admin/upgrade.phpDon't forget to refer to the file named UPGRADE.txt in the module's archive.
Note for installing:1. Overwrite all the files in the old news folder
2. Run the updater (see above)
3. Update the Module in the Moduleadmin
4. Set the Permissions to the Topics
As this module is still a Release Candidate, you should NOT use it on a production websitePlease report all bugs and suggestions here :
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/?newsWords are not enough to say thank you to all the people who have helped me.
Among those people, special thanks to MarcoFr, Christian, Philou, ALL the members of the Newbb Team, Zoullou, Mithrandir, Setec Astronomy and Anne.
Bye,
Herve