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latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:53 am
by dennyhalim
how do i put x latest news on homepage?
just like cmsms homepage.

it looks like an rss module?
which module? how to put it so that it only show up on homepage?

tnx

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:59 am
by Dr.CSS
More info get better Help...

x news from where, in what format, etc. etc...

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:04 am
by dennyhalim
from cmsms news itself.

the default install show the news headers on sidebar.
i want full news (or, at least with excerpt) on the main content.
just like a blog.

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:07 am
by dennyhalim
from cmsms news module

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:08 am
by Dr.CSS
Edit page, in Content: box {news} and any parameters you think you need and it will pull the latest news article at the top every time...

Reading the default content and the Help for modules goes a long way to understanding how it all works...

And...  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg14591

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:46 am
by dennyhalim
i cant find any options on how many news to show up and if i want to show excerpt or not ?

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:37 am
by jmcgin51
dennyhalim wrote: i cant find any options on how many news to show up
you're not looking hard enough...

dennyhalim wrote: and if i want to show excerpt or not ?
by "excerpt" you mean the first x characters of the article???  as opposed to showing the entire article?

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:14 am
by dennyhalim
ok found it. tnx.
maybe it's me. but it is quite hard to find.

and yes, that's what i mean excerpt

Re: latest news on homepage

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:21 pm
by Dr.CSS
Got to content > news click add new article or edit the default one and you will see summary and detail edit boxes, if you look at the default news article in the front end on a page you see it has title as link to read more etc. and it even says it has no 'More' link since it doesn't use summary part...

When in News admin see link for help? it takes you to Help page of news that has all the parameters it takes including how to limit the amount of articles showing up etc. etc....