Makes live a lot easier. Could be improved by inheriting style sheet from template. Had to change some things to make it look the way I wanted it.

I tested this extension out and i had to do little modifications bymyself because of poor programming. I do not recommend this to anyone who needs customisation because there is absolutely NO SUPPORT.

Nice module, seems to do most of the job, however when an article has no images the module looks screwed up, if that could be solved (I do not want to disable images because many of the articles have images)the module would be great Maybe next release_

This module is almost great. Almost. For the simple purpose of listing certain articles with local images on my front page it does brilliantly. The CSS is easy to edit and it's very user friendly in setting up. Also, the newest version of this extension does allow multiple instances of the module on the same page, which I think is wonderful. My only complaint is that I get serious errors and the module looks incredibly nasty whenever I have images from external sites. If I had only a few articles this wouldn't be a problem but I use another component to grab music news from major news sites which includes images and it converts it to articles. I use MFP to display those articles and it fails miserably. I've tried looking on their forum for a fix and there is very little support for external images. If anything they tell people to just download the images and store them locally. I simply do not have the time to get each image for each article and upload them to my site. If there was a way to allow images with external links, my rating would be perfect as this is truly a great module and I would highly recommend it to everyone.

This extension was a little hard to install and configure (took maybe 2 hours until it was complete and in production) however once I got it all set up, it works perfect. I would recommend this and of course it is GREAT considering it was free!

Hi, I've been working around Mini Frontpage module for a while for my client's site. It's still have to be developed but overall it was good for display thumbnail and title.

I've been working all this day to find how to limit title text, and finally I've found :D

Note that I'm a web designer so I've never learn PHP and have no idea about programing, so this solution make me very proud TwT~


To limit title text..

In "helper.php" add this line..
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$limit_title = intval( $params->get( 'limit_title', 50 ) );
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above or after this line..
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$limit = intval( $params->get( 'limit', 200 ) );
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And add this line..
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if($limit_title > 0) {
$rows[$r]->title = fptn_limittext($rows[$r]->title,$allowed_tags,$limit_title);
}
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Above or after this line..
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if($limit > 0) {
$rows[$r]->introtext = fptn_limittext($rows[$r]->introtext,$allowed_tags,$limit);
}
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Then edit "mod_minifrontpage.xml"

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Hehe... :D

I don't know if this is correct, but maybe it is better idea to do so:
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$contentConfig = &JComponentHelper::getParams( 'com_content' );
$access = !$contentConfig->get('show_noauth');
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instead of:
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$access = !$mainframe->getCfg( 'show_noauth' );
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Is only a suggestion, works wonderfully with this.

Congratulations, great job.

This module is almost a great module, but unfortunately it's only a mediocre module due to bugs and a few silly programming decisions.

1. SEF breaks this module. When used on the frontpage, the Item ID will be stripped from the linking URL and all of your module positions on the linked article will disappear.

2. MFP decided several months back that the thumbnail preview will use the LAST image in an, not the first. I hacked my way around it by making a copy of the first image on the bottom of the article and commenting it out. It's a crummy way to have to do business, and I doubt my client is going to be very happy when I tell them about this ridiculous work-around. I have been trying to think of a reason why I would want the last image of an article to be the thumbnail preview, and I can't think of one. I've built dozens of sites of different types and it has always made sense to use the first image. ESPECIALLY on articles that discuss a product. I want an image of the product to be in the preview, not one of the internal mechanisms! Why this was decided or can't be managed from the back-end is beyond me.

Fortunately I've got a bunch of programmers around me that I can talk into fixing bugs, and they've fixed MFP bugs several times. They're about to get another request from me about this most recent issue. With all the issues in this extensions, I can't see myself purchasing anything from Template Plazza. A free extension full of bugs is one thing, but I have no intention of buying an extension that may be full of bugs.

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.

Very useful module. Thanks.

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!

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.

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.

I installed in on a few sites and it works without any problems. Very configurable!

Easy to install and works as needed !!!

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.

Really nice mod, thx.

Module works precisely as advertised.

Nice, smooth installation. Once I assigned categories etc, it worked without errors.

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.

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!