Latest News Pro is the easiest way to display your articles across your site, in any number of layout possibilities. This is our go to module for Joomla! we use it on just about every project we do these days. This is the Swiss army knife of article modules, we have used our Latest News Pro module from everything like the latest news and random customer testimonials in the footer of this site. You can use this module to display tips, news, quotes, etc. in any module position in your template.
"We build this module for a political campaign site we were working on a few years back, now it’s used on every campaign site we build. Scene the creation of this extension we have added a lot of features, and the module has evolved in to a really great, reliable, and flexible extension."
Christophor S. Wilson
Director of web development
Custom HTML Template NEW
Custom HTML template system and code token system, there is a textarea field in the module's settings that lets you change the layout for each news item, for example we had clients that wanted to have the date show up first then the article title, to achieve this we would have to hack the module every time, now it's very simple to change this from the module's settings.
Category Images/Icons NEW
You have an option for a different icon for news items that are coming from different categories, for example if you have a category setup with 3 sub categories in it for latest news, latest videos, and latest press releases you may want to assign a different icon to each category so users know what category the article is from, a news paper icon if it's from the latest news, a video icon if it's from the latest videos etc.
Date Formats NEW
We integrated a new date format to the list of available formats, the latest is BLOCK, if selected will split the date in to two parts (month, day) and wrap each in its own DIV tag. Two new classes have been added for both of the month and day DIV tags, with this new format you can do really cool date icon blocks (like the one to the right). We have also added the custom date format field back in so users can add their own custom format if one of the provided one will not fit their needs, you can read more about custom date formats over at php.net.
Main Features
Title Options
Content Options
Category Image Options
Created by Options
Read More Options
Date Options
YouTube Options
JomSocial
Other Options
The following is a list of tokens you can use in your custom HTML field within the module's parameters:
{TITLE} // Used to display the article's title
{DATE} // Used to display the article's date
{AVATAR} // Used to display the article's author's JomSocial's Avatar
{CREATEDBY} // Used to display the article's author's name
{CATEGORYIMAGE} // Used to display the article's category image
{CONTENT} // Used to display the article's content
{READMORE} // Used to display the article's read more link/button
{ARTICLELINK} // Used to display a link directly to the article
{PROFILELINK} // Used to display a link to the user's JomSocial profile
The following is the default HTML use in your custom HTML field within the module's parameters:
{CATEGORYIMAGE}{AVATAR}{TITLE}{DATE}{CREATEDBY}{CONTENT}{READMORE}
The following is a list of CSS classes you can use in your custom HTML field within the components menu item parameters:
.CSWLatestNews_wrapper{}
.CSWLatestNews_prefix_wrapper{}
.CSWLatestNews_item_wrapper{
padding:5px 0px;
}
.CSWLatestNews_item_category_image{}
.CSWLatestNews_item_avatar{}
.CSWLatestNews_item_title{
font-weight:bold;
}
.CSWLatestNews_item_title_link{}
.CSWLatestNews_item_date{
font-size:10px;
}
.CSWLatestNews_item_date_month{}
.CSWLatestNews_item_date_day{}
.CSWLatestNews_item_created_by{
font-size:10px;
}
.CSWLatestNews_item_content{
padding:10px 0px;
}
.CSWLatestNews_item_read_more{}
.CSWLatestNews_suffix_wrapper{}
v1.3.9: on 05/14/2013 the latest version (1.3.9) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 3.0.x was released. With this version we added two new module CSS class suffix fields to the advanced tab to allow easer CSS customization.
v1.3.8: on 04/24/2013 the latest version (1.3.8) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 3.0.x was released. With this version we added two new features, the first is the option to hide the module if you are on an article layout. The other new feature extends the strip HTML tags feature, you now have the option to strip all HTML tags except <img> tags.
v1.3.7: on 10/13/2012 the latest version (1.3.7) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 3.0.x was released. We added in Joomla 3.0 support, we fixed an issue when all categories is selected that it would display an error 500. We also added a new assets folder and moved the css and images folder in to this new folder.
v1.3.6: on 06/18/2012 the latest version (1.3.6) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 2.5.x was released. I added in some new date features to help out our customers overseas, the date system now uses the PHP setlocale, and strftime to format the date and time, this allows for the days and months to be in your local language. You can now select your location used for the date formatting system, used to select your language. I added an option so you can pick what date to use for the display date, you can select one of the following created, modified, or start publishing date. You can now use custom date formatting on the block style date format, if you want to get rid of the 0 in front of the day "9 vs. 09".
v1.3.5: on 04/30/2012 the latest version (1.3.5) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 2.5.x was released.We patched a critical bug that was caused when using more than one instance of the module on the same page at the same time; the bug would cause the site to crash! Please update your version of the module to fix this issue. We also fixed a minor bug that was displaying the old {YOUTUBE} tags in the module body even when the YouTube feature was disabled. The module is now able to detect if you have added a read more button to an article and call the module’s read more button.
v1.3.4: on 02/17/2012 the latest version (1.3.4) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 2.5.x was released. Added a new function that looks for Open HTML tags and closes them when both the strip HTML option is disabled and limit characters is set.
v1.3.3: on 02/07/2012 the latest version (1.3.3) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 2.5.x was released. We added a new sort order feature/option, you now have the option to sort by publish date, so if the article’s date is in the future it will not be displayed in the module until the publish date even if the article is published. We fixed a bug that was keeping the category images from loading correctly; we also took care of the issue with the sub categories from loading, now you have the option to select multiple categories.
v1.3.2: on 12/06/2011 the latest version (1.3.2) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.6.x/1.7.x was released. We fixed a bug that was causing the read more button link to redirect the user to the login page, the read more button script has been rewritten to correct this problem.
v1.3.1: on 11/23/2011 the latest version (1.3.1) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.6.x/1.7.x was released. We fixed a bug that was causing the HTML in the layout field to get dropped when saving the extensions settings. Please make sure to download the latest version to correct this problem.
v1.3.0: on 08/07/2011 the latest version (1.3.0) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.6.x/1.7.x was released. We completely rebuilt the module from the ground up to work with Joomla 1.6.x/1.7.x.
v1.2.9: On 01/29/2011 the latest version (1.2.9) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.5.x was released. The latest version added a new feature and HTML token for the YouTube player. Most of the time you will only have one video per article and want more control over where that video gets displayed (ie. display it before the article's title), however in some cases you may have multiple videos per article in this case disabling this feature will embed the YouTube players in to the article's content body. NOTE:If you disable this feature make sure to remove the HTML token from the Custom HTML textfield within the module's parameter settings.
v1.2.8: On 01/18/2011 the latest version (1.2.8) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.5.x was released. The latest version addressed a bug with the YouTube player replacing the content with the player, now the module only replaces the YouTube URL, and keeps the content intact.
v1.2.7: On 12/03/2010 the latest version (1.2.7) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.5.x was released. The latest version addressed some minor bugs. We integrated a new date format to the list of available formats, the latest is BLOCK, if selected will split the date in to two parts (month, day) and wrap each in its own DIV tag. Two new classes have been added for both of the month and day DIV tags, with this new format you can do really cool date icon blocks (like the one to the right). We have also added the custom date format field back in so users can add their own custom format if one of the provided one will not fit their needs, you can read more about custom date formats over at php.net.
v1.2.6: On 12/02/2010 the latest version (1.2.6) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.5.x was released. The latest version addressed some minor bugs; the main major fix was adding the ability to upgrade the Latest News Pro module without needing to uninstall it first, in doing so retaining all of your module settings this was HUGE! We also changed the name of the category image token from "{CATEGORYICON}" to "{CATEGORYIMAGE}". We also integrated a new user ID filter feature, that if enabled; allows you to show only articles by the selected user's ID, or display all articles except the user's ID selected. We also rearranged and skinned the module parameters layout page.
v1.2.5: On 11/23/2010 the latest version (1.2.5) of our Latest News Pro module for Joomla 1.5.x was released. We completely rebuilt the module from the ground up; we have addressed several minor bugs with the previous versions. One of the new changes has been all new CSS class names so if you are using one of our older versions and have made changes to the CSS make sure that you see the list of new class names below.
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