Introduction
If you run a blog or add new articles regularly, is important to arrange the latest articles and show them to your visitors in attractive way. Awesome News does exactly that by displaying joomla content, K2 items or custom items in in carousel or wall mode.
The Styles, and some features in free version are limited. Article options are available only in the pro version.
General settings
Style - 18 styles
Version - Slider / Standard
Item distance
Use custom colors - Yes / No
Background Color
Color
Font awesome - Yes / No
Custom CSS
Data Source:
Articles
Select Category
Child Category Articles
Category Depth
Tag Filter
Featured Articles
Article Field to Order By
Ordering Direction
Count
Open Link - New Window / Same Window / Popup window
Article custom fields - Yes / No
Category Title - Yes / No
Item Title - Yes / No
Title Max length
Description display - Yes / No
Description Max length
Date display - Yes / No
Date format - Yes / No
Show Read More - Yes / No
Images settings
From Image Intro - Yes / No
From Image Full text - Yes / No
From Inline Intro text - Yes / No
From Inline Full text - Yes / No
Order to Get
Resize Mode - GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP
Image Width
Image Height
Placeholder image - Yes / No (Display the placeholder image when an article has no image)
Placeholder Path (or Url)
K2 Items
Source - K2 categories / Custom K2 Items
Category filter - All / Select
K2 Categories - Select
Fetch items from children categories
Count Items
Featured Items - Show / Hide / Show only Featured Items
Time range (if ordering is set to 'most popular' or 'most commented')
Items ordering
Category filter - Yes/No
Custom k2 Items
Add Items
Items settings
Image Size - XSmall, Small, Medium, Large, XLarge
Show title - Yes/No
Show date - Yes/No
Show category - Yes/No
Show author - Yes/No
Custom Items
Image
Created - author or date
Title
Info text
Read more link
Slider Settings
Items - one to ten
Items (Tab Landscape) - one to ten
Items (Tab Portrait) - one to ten
Items (Mob Landscape) - one to ten
Items (Mob Portrait) - one to ten
Sliding Time
Sliding Speed
Auto play (Yes/No)
Loop (Yes/No)
Show arrows (Yes/No)
Arrows style (top/bottom/center)
Item distance
Show next previous items (Yes/No)
Standard settings
Items - one to ten
Items (Tab Landscape) - one to ten
Items (Tab Portrait) - one to ten
Mx Awesome News
- Version:
- 4.2.8
- Developer:
- mixwebtemplates
- Last updated:
-
Oct 26 2026
2 weeks ago - Date added:
- Jul 18 2020
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Free download
- Includes:
- m
- Compatibility:
- J3 J4 J5 J6
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