Mini FrontPage 
Version
2.2 (last update on Nov 21, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
98
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
2 August 2007
Uses Updater?
- Yes
What's New in the Mini FrontPage v 2.0 :
+ Tableless design
+ A complete code revamping, for better performance
+ Theme-based layout, choose between Classic mode and Tabbed Mode with jQuery animation support
+ Combine the number of column, row and location of the "More Articles" box and get hundreds possibilities of layout
+ Item direction, choose the ordering direction of item, Across or Down
+ More stylist we think
Check out the demo pages to see how nice the new Mini Frontpage looks now.
UPDATE : Joomla 1.7 version is available to donwload now. Also works in Joomla 2.5 too.
UPDATE NEWS : Joomla 1.5 version is still available to download in our old template club site.
Change Log in version 1.2.5
(Please note : Few bug fixes / new features were available for MiniFp J 1.5 version only due to limitation on J 1.0.xx core code)
1. Use ContentHelperRoute::_findItem function to get itemid of article links
2. Fixed the undefined var $offset on default.php
using
echo JHTML::_('date', $row->publish_up,$params->get( 'date_format' ), $mainframe->getCfg('offset'));
instead
echo JHTML::_('date', $row->publish_up,$params->get( 'date_format' ), $offset);
3. add option for select name/alias or username at creator field
4. add number intro skip
5. Fix thumb image height & width when image loaded from menu image
6. Set all generated image to folder images/stories/minifp
7. remove function fptn_get_id, get Itemid is used default joomla function
8. add new parameter: "Show default thumbnails when article have no image"
9. update function fptn_thumb_size
10. Fixing coding structure
11. Add function fix_tags and renew function fptn_limittext, now, the introtext will be limited without counting the html tag contained. enjoy it :D
12. add new parameter for custom date format
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-{mosimage} 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
I have always been too busy to add a review for the extensions I have used, but this one I just had to.
Out of the box it worked like a charm, and with only some slight CSS tweaking I had it looking like I wanted in less than 5 minutes.
Great work!
Out of the box it worked like a charm, and with only some slight CSS tweaking I had it looking like I wanted in less than 5 minutes.
Great work!
This is a very good module indeed. It works as advertised. All I wanted is to show specific categories articles in the top part of a website. I wanted WordPress functionality to be honest. I tried K2 in that matter which loads a whole new interface and big stuff and the configuration is an overkill. I wanted something really quick. Mini FrontPage did the job in no time all I had to deal with then is restyling to suit my site's theme.
Some feedback to the kind developer:
1- Thumbnail sometimes don't honor control panel options to hide.
2- If you add the option to select showing category or section name that will be an advantage.
3- If added separate options for each column to control width introtext and thumbnail size and position
I'm completely satisfied with Mini FrontPage and the point mentioned above is something like a wish list for future development. Thank you!
Some feedback to the kind developer:
1- Thumbnail sometimes don't honor control panel options to hide.
2- If you add the option to select showing category or section name that will be an advantage.
3- If added separate options for each column to control width introtext and thumbnail size and position
I'm completely satisfied with Mini FrontPage and the point mentioned above is something like a wish list for future development. Thank you!
The thumbnails only works for some articles in the front, for others it shows the default image. Apart from the module is looking good.
very easy to install and configure. powerful features. strongly recommend for any joomla configuration where articles need to be pulled out for frontpage display.
this is the best module out there i would like to see a component like it to replace the poor blog layout, there one bug i discovered when you set the read more link text to nothing to hide the readmore link, after saving and reopening the module settings it goes back to +Full text, it nothing but should be fixed. thanks alot great module
I've been installing this module on every site I do and it always works flawlessly! Great work. It is simple to set up and requires no work to maintain, which is great for group environments where a lot of different people contribute news items to a site. They always land at the top and they always land in order! Awesome!
I found one bug that I think is important. Most recently I'm using this module in a large module position in place of the content area on the front page and displaying full news articles on the page. I found that by leaving black the "+ Read More" box you can remove it completely, however when you go back to the configuration page it refills the field.
One suggestion: Allow substituting images in place of the "read more" box. It's unsightly!
Great work!
I found one bug that I think is important. Most recently I'm using this module in a large module position in place of the content area on the front page and displaying full news articles on the page. I found that by leaving black the "+ Read More" box you can remove it completely, however when you go back to the configuration page it refills the field.
One suggestion: Allow substituting images in place of the "read more" box. It's unsightly!
Great work!
Really – just when I give praise to another Joomla Module or Extension – along comes another one that astounds me – All I can think of is “Stellar!” This is exactly what I was looking for. My category pages and the amount of content I have on my website needed a module that could really make my content shine – this is it! When I start to make money on my site and I can afford to - I will DEFINITELY contribute to help you continue your “MasterMindedness”. Thank you so much!
Great free extension - just what I needed! Thanks
I love this module, it does exactly what it says and is very useful.
However, as has already been mentioned in previous comments, it does NOT play nice with external images.
This is extremely annoying if you use it on a section of your site dealing with news syndication for example. Any new articles are let down by this modules inability to display thumbs of images from syndicated.
Fix this and its a perfect product.
However, as has already been mentioned in previous comments, it does NOT play nice with external images.
This is extremely annoying if you use it on a section of your site dealing with news syndication for example. Any new articles are let down by this modules inability to display thumbs of images from syndicated.
Fix this and its a perfect product.
I like the module, great and easy to use. I need to modify it though because I need it with a carousel option to zap through more recent items, but I guess i can't request that as an option.
I read some people had problems with the last picture in an article showing as thumbnail, which i noticed and I've solved it in a quite crude way.
Open the helper.php file inside the modules dir and comment out line 130, like so:
if (!empty($rows[$r]->images)) { //$rows[$r]->images = $txtimgelsr[1][0] . "\n" . $rows[$r]->images; } else { $rows[$r]->images = $txtimgelsr[1][0];
}
Because its a foreach loop it keeps adding the pictures it finds to the place it gets the thumbnail from, so removing that line only adds the first one. Maybe there's a more elegant way but this works for me :)
Now i think of it, the whole if statement can be:
if (empty($rows[$r]->images)) {
$rows[$r]->images = $txtimgelsr[1][0];
}
Other than this, very nice module :]
I read some people had problems with the last picture in an article showing as thumbnail, which i noticed and I've solved it in a quite crude way.
Open the helper.php file inside the modules dir and comment out line 130, like so:
if (!empty($rows[$r]->images)) { //$rows[$r]->images = $txtimgelsr[1][0] . "\n" . $rows[$r]->images; } else { $rows[$r]->images = $txtimgelsr[1][0];
}
Because its a foreach loop it keeps adding the pictures it finds to the place it gets the thumbnail from, so removing that line only adds the first one. Maybe there's a more elegant way but this works for me :)
Now i think of it, the whole if statement can be:
if (empty($rows[$r]->images)) {
$rows[$r]->images = $txtimgelsr[1][0];
}
Other than this, very nice module :]
I am sure this is the best module of its kind at this time. Great work! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! a million times Thank you!
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