News Publisher 2.3.0
Change log
Click on each feature for details and real-world examples (screenshots).
- News Ticker
- Enable/Disable the news ticker from the ACP to suit your preferences.
- Appears prominently at the top of your site, directly above the top breadcrumb, on every page.
- Displays your most recent 10 headlines.
- Search News Headlines
- Shows instant results as you type.
- When there are multiple results, it will take you to the results page.
- No result page.
- Categorized News Index
- Display news stories organized by categories on the index page.
- Customize the appearance of each news category using three display modes:
- Control the number of news stories displayed per category on the index page.
- Complete control over which news categories appear on the index page.
- Empty news categories (those with no news) will not be displayed on the index.
- Support for sorting categories, ensuring that changes to category display order in ACP are reflected on the index page.
- Optionally utilize multiple widget positions above and below the news stories for placement of Featured News and Trending News widgets.
- News Story View
- Title
- Buttons
- Comments
- Watch
- Share
- Bookmark
- More options menu
- Edit news
- Edit news thumbnail
- Manage feature
- Move news
- Reassign news
- Change discussion thread
- Delete news
- Select for moderation
- Delete
- Undelete
- Approve
- Unapprove
- Feature
- Unfeature
- Reassign
- Move
- Apply prefix
- Discussion tab
- Custom fields tab
- Overview tab
- Key points
- Large news thumbnail
- News story
- Attach photos
- Action bar
- Reactions
- Report
- Edit history
- Delete
- Warn
- Content tags
- More stories in same category
- Comments
- Sidebar blocks
- Information
- Author
- Publish date
- Last update date
- Views
- Comments
- News Editors
- Widget position
- Latest news widget
- More stories by User
- Share this news story
- Information
- Structured Data Integration
- Automatically generates NewsArticle schema markup for each news story. Improves search engine visibility and ranking. Enhances discoverability of your news content.
- RSS Feed Importer
- Add/edit feed
- Title
- URL
- Fetch new entries every
- Feed is active
- Posting user
- Post as guest, use name information from feed data.
- Post as the following user
- Destination category
- Title template
- Message template
- Options
- Post immediately
- Import feed now
- Delete feed
- Enable/disable feed
- Add/edit feed
- News categories
- Add/edit category
- Title
- Description
- Parent category
- Display order
- Always moderate news posted in this category
- Automatically feature news posted in this category
- Show category on index
- Number of news
- Minimum required tags
- Automatically create thread in forum
- Automatically created thread prefix
- Display mode
- Override default 'Category display mode' (Default value: Card grid)
- Card grid
- Compact list
- Expanded list
- Override default 'Category display mode' (Default value: Card grid)
- Available fields
- Available prefixes
- Require users to select a prefix
- Sort categories
- Delete category
- Add sibling or child category
- Category permissions
- Category filters
- Add/edit category
- News fields
- Add field
- Filter fields
- Delete field
- Field Display location
- Below news
- Below sidebar information
- Own tab
- Applicable categories
- and other standard options.
- News prefixes
- Add prefix
- Delete prefix
- Add prefix group
- Delete prefix group
- Select all prefixes and quick set
- Filter prefix
- News Key Points
- Enable or disable the key points feature in your admin options.
- Easy-to-use interface for adding key points to your news stories during creation or editing.
- Prominent display of key points on news stories.
- Quick editing interface on news story view.
- News Thumbnails
- Enable or disable the News Thumbnails feature in your admin options.
- News creators can upload a large (740x416) thumbnail.
- News thumbnail image is used extensively throughout the public-facing interface of the News Publisher.
- News Editors
- Enable or disable the News Editors feature in your admin options.
- News authors can add up to 10 other users as news editors for each news.
- News editors are able to take actions against a news story as if it were their own, with the exception of deletions.
- Featured News
- Category-based auto-feature option.
- News author with the "Feature/unfeature news" permission can manually feature or unfeature a news story.
- Ability to customize the feature title, snippet and image.
- The news story content type is displayed effectively in all three display styles offered by XenForo 2.3:
- Simple
- Standard
- Carousel
- Trending News
- Included the News story content type in the Trending content widget.
- The news story content type is displayed effectively in all three display styles offered by XenForo 2.3:
- Simple
- Standard
- Carousel
- Category display modes
- Widgets
- Widget Positions
- XenCustomize News Publisher: Index above news
- A position inside the main content area of the index above the news stories.
- XenCustomize News Publisher: Index below news
- A position inside the main content area of the index below the news stories.
- XenCustomize News Publisher: Index Sidenav
- Displays inside the side navigation on the news publisher index page.
- XenCustomize News Publisher: Category Sidenav
- Displays inside the side navigation on the news publisher category page.
- XenCustomize News Publisher: News Sidebar
- Displays inside the sidebar block on the news story view page.
- XenCustomize News Publisher: Index above news
- Full-Fledged Commenting System
- The comment system includes the following features:
- Full support for a rich text editor.
- Attachment support.
- The ability to reply to comments using the quote feature.
- Support for multi-quoting.
- Quick inline editing:
- Edit silently
- If selected, no "last edited" note will be added for this edit.
- Clear last edit information
- If selected, any existing "last edited" note will be removed.
- Edit silently
- Edit history support with the ability to view and compare previous versions.
- Options to delete comments with deletion types:
- Remove from public view with a reason.
- Permanently delete.
- Notify author of this action with Reason.
- Display of IP address information for comments.
- Inline moderation support with the ability to:
- Delete comments.
- Undelete comments.
- Approve comments.
- Unapprove comments.
- View of soft-deleted comments and the option to undelete.
- Warning support.
- Report support.
- Spam cleaner support.
- New comments go through an approval queue before becoming visible to the public.
- Support for reactions.
- Receive alert notifications when someone:
- Mentions you in a comment.
- Quotes your comment.
- Reacts to your comment.
- Comments on a watched news story.
- Pagination support.
- Admin-defined number of comments per page.
- Admin-defined maximum comment length.
- Admin-defined maximum comment attachment size.
- Admin-defined allowed comment attachment file types (extensions).
- Fully permission-controlled, with complete sets of permissions for users and moderators.
- Added search indexing support for comments' content type.
- Added a new navigation link for easy access to view recent comments.
- The comment system includes the following features:
- User group Permissions: News Stories
- View news
- View full news
- View news images
- React to news
- Create news
- Upload images with news
- Upload video/audio with news
- Edit own news
- Tag own news
- Tag any news
- Manage tags by others in own news
- Delete own news
- Manage news editors for own news
- User group Permissions: News (Moderator)
- Use inline moderation on news
- View deleted news
- Delete any news
- Undelete news
- Hard-delete any news
- Edit any news
- Reassign news
- Manage any tags
- View unapproved news
- Approve / unapprove news
- Feature / unfeature news
- Give warnings on news
- User group Permissions: News Comments
- View comments
- View comment attachments
- React to comments
- Post comments
- Submit comments without approval
- Upload attachments to comments
- Upload videos to comments
- Edit own comment
- Delete own comment
- Time limit on editing/deleting own comments (minutes)
- User group Permissions: News Comments (Moderator)
- Use inline moderation on comments
- View unapproved comments
- View deleted comments
- Approve / unapprove comments
- Edit any comment
- Delete any comment
- Undelete comments
- Hard delete any comment
- Reassign comments
- Give warnings on comments
- Cron entries
- Update view counters
- Feeder
- Cache statistics
- Rebuild caches
- Rebuild news
- Rebuild news categories
- Optimize news thumbnails
- Rebuild user news counts
- Rebuild news embed metadata
- Attachments
Release notes
XenCustomize News Publisher for XenForo!
Introducing the XenCustomize News Publisher for XenForo! This powerful, feature-rich addon creates a dynamic news section within your XenForo forum. At the heart of this addon is the innovative Categorized News Index, offering a clean, organized, and user-friendly way to display your news stories. Unlike typical mixed-content displays with pagination, the categorized index presents news in easily accessible sections, enhancing the user experience and engagement.Supported Payment Methods
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