Cotonti/Cotonti — Issue #839: Advanced, a more flexible News plugin needed
Author: staleo
Created: 2012-02-19 20:42:20+00:00
State: open

News is one of the basic Cotonti plugins, which allows to output several the most recent pages of a particular category (-ies) on the index page. ONLY on the index page. You cannot use News in lists. You cannot use News in pages. Above that, you'll never force News to output, say, one recent page of a category in the list, and three recent pages of the same category on the index.

This restriction is more than annoying, in the sense that Cotonti-driven websites literally fail to provide 100% flexibility to output anything, anywhere, using any design we want for different cases.

What I would deadly appreciate is kind of News 2.0., which would:

- allow to output pages in the lists and pages;
- let us differentiate tpls for index and any other outputs;
- allow to regulate the amount of recent pages to output in all the different cases;
- remain being as stable as News 1.0. :)

Cheers!