DevArt News
Introduction
Professional Joomla 6 news widgets package for editorial sites, magazines, newspapers, news portals and high-traffic content websites.
DevArt News for Joomla 6
Create responsive article showcases, featured news layouts, homepage content blocks, sidebar lists and editorial displays using native Joomla articles — with cache-friendly, production-safe rendering designed for large databases, high concurrency and Cloudflare full-page cache.
Why DevArt News
- Built only for Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3+ (no legacy Joomla 3/4/5 baggage)
- Lightweight frontend module + central component configuration
- Optimized for very large article tables and high-traffic newsrooms
- Compatible with Joomla Page Cache, reverse proxies and Cloudflare
- Clean, modern administrator UX with hub dashboard and grouped settings
Frontend Templates
- News Cards — clean editorial card grids for homepage and category blocks
- Overlay Cards — image-forward layouts with overlay text for featured stories
- Compact List — fast sidebar / related / mobile compact news lists
Ideal for:
- homepage news modules
- breaking / latest news blocks
- category mini sections
- related articles
- magazine landing pages
- high-density editorial layouts
Article Sources & Filtering
Pull content from native Joomla articles with flexible source modes:
- Latest / all articles
- Category filtered articles
- Selected articles
Advanced controls:
- include / exclude categories and articles
- featured filtering
- author filtering
- tag filtering
- date filters
- multiple ordering modes
- article limits and skip/offset
- exclude current article on article pages
Images & Performance
Smart image handling with automatic discovery:
- Auto / intro / full / first-in-content image modes
- Optional resize / crop thumbnail generation
- Bounded article-result caching
- Concurrent-safe thumbnail generation
- Module
safeuricache mode for production safety - LCP-friendly first-image priority on single-column layouts
Built for production environments where speed, cache hit rate and origin efficiency matter.
Administrator Features
- Dashboard hub (New Widget / Widget List / Options / cache maintenance)
- Create, edit, duplicate widgets
- Import / export widgets
- Header & Footer controls
- Content Simple / Advanced mode
- Template Theme / Layout / Cards grouping
- Per-template News Cards and Overlay Cards options
- Selected article picker with search and pagination
- Joomla ACL permissions
- 15 language packs
Package Contents
com_devartnews— administrator component and shared servicesmod_devartnews— lightweight site module renderer
Install and update using the full package ZIP only.
Requirements
- Joomla 6.x
- PHP 8.3+
Perfect For
- news portals
- digital newspapers
- magazines
- editorial / media websites
- high-traffic Joomla 6 sites behind Cloudflare or full-page cache
DevArt News — lightweight, fast and stable news widgets for modern Joomla 6 publishing.
DevArt News
- Version:
- 1.1.0
- Developer:
- Kostas Stathopoulos
- Last updated:
-
Aug 26 2026
2 days ago - Date added:
- May 27 2026
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Free download
- Includes:
- c m
- Compatibility:
- J6
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