News and Images

[cuhlcannon]

I have a request to see if it is possible to do. I haven't read anything on the forums that would do this but...

The news module has some lovely functionality, especially with the new trigger functionality between calendars etc. But one thing I think is missing is the ability to have one image (or two) as the illustration of the news story. At the moment I am relegated to inserting the news story and including the image itself into the text, albiet aligned left or right etc. I am looking to:

Insert a title, summary, body and dates etc like it does now, but also include a content block that would hold an image or series of images that I could work with css.

Then with the template I could do a:


 
          {news item='image'}
 
 
          {news item='summary,date,more_link'}
 


Effectively breaking apart the elements of the news to use in different ways, but say also having the latest news item on a home page, with only the image and link showing.

I hope this makes sense. I have it in the right forum now.

[jrw]

I second that