 MiniFrontPage module, like the Latest Buzz or Blog tabs on the demo site, provides you with a lightweight but powerfull news headline style of your most recent content items. It's just not only to show case your latest news item, but you can show any latest or most read articles from preferred section(s) or category(s) that can be set up from the module parameters. There's also options to set it using one, two or three headline articles column format plus one column for another stories link. Or you can also have your headline story formatted vertically with one column for one headline article like the right module's Business Week
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Changelog Ver 1.2.4
* Add random option for displaying article
Changelog Ver 1.2.3
* Add ordering option for thumbnail position
Changelog Ver 1.2.2
* Add show/hide articles title option
* Add show/hide articles introtext option
Changelog Ver 1.2
* Fix png thumbnail generation bug
* Fix Separator bug
Changelog Ver 1.1
* Add Show/Hide thumbnail option
* Add Show Category Title option
* Now support non- images (Minifrontpage now will also generate thumbnail for images that is put into the article using html tags)
* No More generating the thumbnail everytime the page is loaded (the module is loaded faster now)
* Fix aspect ratio calculation
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| Great module, one suggestion by rikatikamedia, June 8, 2008 |
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0 of 1 people find this review helpful:
This is a great little module, but I have one suggestion. It would be useful if you could make the title of the module be an active menu link, so that like other menu links, you could link to a category or section and choose a blog layout or a list layout. I realize that it would be asking the module to do two completely different things, but if it's possible, it would be neat. That's all.
Thanks for a great module. |
| Great, as long as your items are plain text and images. by jackbremer, May 30, 2008 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
BEAUTIFUL!
This is gorgeous. I liked that the PHP and CSS are written simply, and commented nicely - was easy enough to make thumbnails right-aligned, and change the CSS so the UL's were less indented. I think the thumbnail align should be a module option in the backend, but hey-ho!
One problem I found, which REALLY impacted the implementation time, was HTML coding - any text that was bold or italic completely screwed up this module, and it would only show intro text after that text. Other problem, is the bold or italic text breaks the thumbnail!
Overall, an easy-enough to customise, functional module that adds eye candy to your site, in a usable way...
Bear in mind that it picks the thumb from your LAST image in the main text. To change to Intro text images, read hte support forum! |
| Holy Wow! by Karn Edge, May 5, 2008 |
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This is a great module! Spices up a site in seconds! Only real problem is that it inserts the tag to the stylesheet in the body of the template where the module is located. So it makes that page not XHTML compliant due to the link tag not being in the head section. This module is fairly flexible but you cannot change the author/date part without hard coding. According to others, it seems it does not process normal HTML tags in the intro text. Oh and you cannot have more 1 mini-frontpage modules on the same page. Other than that it is a very awesome install, place and go module that will really make your articles stand out better. |
| Easy to use but lack small feature by gautam, April 12, 2008 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Its really easy to use and very good module. It lacks a feature. It doesn't contain feature to display thumb only for the article which contain image. I think it is not necessary for all to display default image. There should be option to display default image or leave blank for the news which doesn't contain image. |
| Great extension by Harald_K, March 23, 2008 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I installed in on a few sites and it works without any problems. Very configurable! |
| Nice but plain text is disadvantage by FatalMusic, March 11, 2008 |
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2 of 2 people find this review helpful:
Very nice module and easy to work with.
BIG disadvantage is that it will not show html formatting in the intro text at all. Even adding the 'allowed tags' into the php file is not helping.
Too bad that nobody responds on the forum when asking about this either... there are more people having this issue. It seems this is the only module meeting my wishes but the plain text format is really annoying. |
| Cudos! by Mindvacant, March 1, 2008 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Module works precisely as advertised.
Nice, smooth installation. Once I assigned categories etc, it worked without errors. |
| Great Extension by wbivona, February 6, 2008 |
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This mini frontpage extension is easy to set up and run. Used in an article with loadposition is the way I use it on my frontpage. It works well with Joomla!1.5. There are several drawbacks, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy.
You must start your article with script. Images must be named simple and contain no spaces. Read more bar must be at least 200 characters deep. If you are not careful the drawback is an repeating error message which makes a mess of the extension. Can be viewed with IE, Mozilla and Safari.
Thanks templateplazza, this one is a keeper. |
| Great Module! by Dallasjmoore, February 6, 2008 |
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This module worked perfect for my client's site. I needed a good newsflash module that gave me control over multi column formats. However, I did have to look in the forum to find out how to allow HTML tags within the module's content. It wasn't hard to find in the php file. No big deal, but maybe in the future you can include a field in the admin so users can just list the html tags they want to allow without having to edit the php file directly. Overall this module is excellent! |
| Very solid, needs just a bit more work! by TheSaint, January 27, 2008 |
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As mentioned by previous reviewers, this module does wonders for the look of your site. There are many customization options such as the ability to toggle images on and off.
My only gripe is that there still needs to be a bit more control over the "fully story +" text. Right now the placement of that link seems somewhat random. At times it shows up at the bottom left of the module and sometimes to the right. I'd like to be able to force the "full story" text to go to one spot and one spot only to increase uniformity and cleanliness in the layout.
That's really my only gripe for an otherwise excellent and did I mention *free* module. All in all, not enough to ding it a star. Five stars and recommended. TP, I sure hope you keep developing this for a long time, as its a real life saver. You have a happy user here! |
| Brilliant by donace, January 18, 2008 |
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A very easy to use module nice and simple, takes a few seconds to load first time but when cached all good :D
Only small difference i would like to see is that making the category/section titles if displayed 'clickable'
otherwise a great module |
| Great by floatingworld, November 27, 2007 |
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I was using the "content items" module before, and was having issues... This module works great and is very useful for content heavy newsportals. |
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