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Is it possible to show just selected news? I need a front page that shows 1-4 selected news sorted by the date. Those selected ones are not necessary the newest ones, but news that are selected by the editor. I think this can be somehow achieved with a custom field and with template customazation. Or is this already in the core of the news module? Thanks in advance

Unless things have changed in the most recent version of the News module, there is no other way to select a group of items within News except by creating a custom field and assigning a recognizable value to it which you then use in the templates (or UDT) to display the desired content.

You can also create a specific Category for this and assign selected News items to this Category. When you call the module you can restrict display to this special category - this may work for you as well and does not require you to create a new field. This method can be extended by creating different categories for different grouping so it is scalable.

Hope that helps.

S

I managed do this with categories. Thanks for simple tip