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Mini FrontPage, by TemplatePlazza - Joomla Extension Directory

Introduction

Frontend News, Latest News, Articles Showcase, News Display, Articles Display

Mini Frontpage is an advanced news display module for Joomla. It displays the joomla articles from selected categories with date, thumbnail, excerpt in various design and layout. It’s simple and easy to use. It also comes with many parameters to configure, to help you to create a good looking news block for your Joomla website quickly.


Features :

  • Multiple item support, you can publish multiple Minifrontpage modules in the same page
  • Responsive Design, the module will look good in any device
  • Flexible parameters to suit your needs, from basic parameters such article category source, show hide introtext with trim function, articles filter etc, to theme based parameters such as number of column, custom date format, thumbnail posistion etc
  • Theme skin, each theme may comes with some skins for alternate style. If you know css, you can make your own theme skin and upload it to Minifrontpage skin folder
  • CSS adjustment. 
If you just need to make small style modification, there’s also a css adjustment field to add css override/modification without touching the physical file.
  • Joomla 4 ready
  • etc

Really Has Worked Well



Posted on 23 February 2009
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!

Limit Title text..



Posted on 08 February 2009
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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After this

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Hehe... :D

show_noauth idea



Posted on 17 January 2009
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 nice



Posted on 07 June 2008
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!

Holy Wow!



Posted on 05 May 2008
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.

Great extension



Posted on 23 March 2008
I installed in on a few sites and it works without any problems. Very configurable!
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Mini FrontPage

Version:
4.0.1
Developer:
TemplatePlazza
Last updated:
Nov 30 2023
1 year ago
Date added:
Aug 02 2007
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Related extension :
Mini Frontpage Pro
Includes:
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Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5 (b/c plugin)
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