Mini FrontPage 
Version
2.0 (last update on Jan 31, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
233
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
550862
Date Added
2 August 2007
Uses 1.6 Updater?
- Yes
Editor's Note
- This extension requires registration to download.
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 was searching for a decent free module that would display just the title and the beginning of my most recent articles in a small module position on my home page... After much searching and trying out of other modules I discovered MINI FRONTPAGE and it does exactly what I need it to do!
This FREE module is easy to install, looks great and preforms well. Highly recommended.
This FREE module is easy to install, looks great and preforms well. Highly recommended.
Registration took seconds and so did setting up my home page so that it shows 12 of my most popular articles. I have it installed on Joomla 2.53. Thank you, ideal for what I wanted
Downloaded and installed this very easily, so great there. Unfortunately that's where the good times stopped rolling for me. The news items dsplayed OK, but in a grey box and neither the title nor the content in the grey box cliucked me through to read more of my news items, whe=ich were there, just hidden inside somewhere.
This is a free module, so nobody can comlpain about it and you'll see that the developer adapts this to requests, even those on JED (see below), so it's not the module or the developer that's flawed, just my experience.
This is a free module, so nobody can comlpain about it and you'll see that the developer adapts this to requests, even those on JED (see below), so it's not the module or the developer that's flawed, just my experience.
Thanks for this great module! It does exactly what I want. Excellent work :D
One suggestion however, can you add the functionality to just select featured items (instead of choosing a category)? Or to enable sorting articles by whether they are featured? Thanks :)
One suggestion however, can you add the functionality to just select featured items (instead of choosing a category)? Or to enable sorting articles by whether they are featured? Thanks :)
Owner's reply
We have updated the module with features you requested. You may re-download it now.
M loving this module,only problem m facing is that when I install it on my homepage,and then I click on the articles through this module,some other modules dont work with that article.ex.disqus comments,some joomla default modules etc.Please help..I want to use this module
This is a great module withmost of teh features you would want (but omissions like inability not to show article that is currently displayed). The code isn't very nice but with some (heavy) template output overrides works great. Unfortunatelly it doesn't seem J1.7+ version is coming.
Owner's reply
We have revamped the code and update it to work in Joomla 1.7/2.5. Have a try...
Good extension, but for static display of content only. I find the setting of parameters limited: picking from lists of sections and category names would be much more convenient than looking up every category id number. Also most formatting has to be done by editing css files.
One major bug: though the module works well for the most part with joomfish, it fails to pick up the translation of the category, rendering it always in english no matter what language is selected. I hope this can get fixed soon and I will gladly raise my rating.
One major bug: though the module works well for the most part with joomfish, it fails to pick up the translation of the category, rendering it always in english no matter what language is selected. I hope this can get fixed soon and I will gladly raise my rating.
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
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