The RiNewsflash Module is a dynamic Joomla extension designed to enhance your website by displaying the latest text additions from a selected article. This module is perfect for site owners who wish to highlight recent updates or changes in content without having to create an article for that, making it easier for visitors to stay informed about the latest news or information.
- Dynamic Content Display: Automatically fetches and displays the latest updates from a specified article.
- Customizable Updates: Allows setting the number of latest additions to show, tailoring the module to fit your site's design and content strategy.
- Flexible Layout: Includes options for adding a custom link to the full article, complete with customizable text and CSS class for the link, ensuring seamless integration with your site's design.
- HTML Markup Rendering: Processes content through Joomla's content plugins, ensuring that embedded media, formatting, and other plugin effects are rendered correctly.
RiNewsflash module will (hopefully) play nice with:
- Joomla 3.X
- Joomla 4.X
- Joomla 5.X
- PHP 7.4+
- PHP 8.0+
The module offers straightforward settings for easy customization:
- Article ID: The unique identifier of the source article. Specify the ID of the article from which to display the latest text additions.
- Number of Additions: How many latest updates to show within the module. Please note that each update is separated by the previous one with a horizontal rule HTML tag < hr >.
- Data Order: Select how the article's content will be proccessed. If you select ascending order, article content will be read from top to bottom.
- Show Link: Toggle to display a link to the full article.
- Link Text: Customizable text for the article link.
- Link Class: Custom CSS class for styling the link.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this module. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
I do not offer any kind of support. Using freely distributed software does not entitle you to free support or labor from its developers. You may contact me with any ideas for new features, but there are no guarantees that your request will be implemented or ever responded to in a certain timeframe or at all.