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Informations about the package elgg-news

Elgg News Plugin

Elgg 5.0

Elgg plugin for posting news and announcements by administrators, group owners or news staff.

Features

This plugin offers administrators the following options:

As an example of "adding other Elgg entities as news items", if there is blog post by any user, administrator can add this as news post. So it will be displayed in list of news but if users click on this item, will redirected to original blog post. The same action could apply to any post like pages, bookmarks, videos etc.

Also administrator can allow to group owners for posting new/announcements inside the group only.

Summarizing permissions, the following options are available:

Who can post site news

Who can set/unset site news as featured

Who can post group news (if enabled in settings)

Who can set/unset group news as featured (if enabled in settings)

How to use a customizable news list view

If need to have a different view for listing news, e.g. in a custom front page, you could use the following code:

You can see an example about how to use this view at elgg-news/views/default/resources/elgg-news/custom_list_view.php. This sample view will be accessible at http://www.YOURCOMMUNITYURL.com/news/custom_list.

Especially about photo sizes, you can use any of the predefined photo size, which are:

Or you can set a custom photo size (width and height) in plugin settings, so for each photo upload on news item, it will be saved in this size too.

How to change the default icon

Site administrators can select the icons to use for default news icon in plugin settings.

If need to add a custom icon, just uploaded it to folders mod/elgg-news/graphics/icons for default news icon. All file uploads will be available for selection in plugin settings.

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