News Item content type for Kotti
Project description
News Item content type for Kotti.
This package provides:
a NewsItem content type that is just a Document with a different default view,
a news_listing view that provides an alternative default view for Document, for listing most recent published NewsItems on a full-page style display,
a RecentNews widget for showing most recent published NewsItems in a slot, and
an all_news view that shows ALL News Items in your site, chronologically ordered.
Setup
To activate the kotti_newsitem add-on in your Kotti site, you need to add an entry to the kotti.configurators setting in your Paste Deploy config. If you don’t have a kotti.configurators option, add one. The line in your [app:main] (or [app:kotti], depending on how you setup Fanstatic) section could then look like this:
kotti.configurators = kotti_newsitem.kotti_configure
Configuration
A good approach for managing news items on your site is to make a private container document for holding the actual news items. It is a good idea to organize them somehow, as by year:
news-items
2013
news-item-foo
news-item-bar
...
2014
...
This is primarily to help the content creator organize content, but it could also be used as a “manual” way of presenting news items if published. Display of most recent news items can be done either by selecting News Listing for the default view of a Document, or by using the recent news widget in a slot.
News Listing
For a full-page listing of most recent news items, add a Document, usually at the top-level of your site and titled “News”, and set its default view to News Listing. Control the number of recent items shown with:
kotti_newsitem.num_news = 10
At the bottom of the list of news items, regardless of the number of recent news items listed, is a link to a page for All News, where all news items are shown.
Recent News Widget
If you want the RecentNews widget to show up in your site in a slot, either in place of a dedicated full-page news listing or to augment it, you have to add a line like this to enable the recent news widget:
kotti_newsitem.widget.slot = right
The for a list of available slots in a default Kotti site see the kotti.view.slots API docs
To change the default number of recent news items shown in the widget (5), add a line like this:
kotti_newsitem.widget.num_news = 10
Development
Contributions to kotti_newsitem are highly welcome. Just clone its Github repository and submit your contributions as pull requests.
Changelog
0.2
Added a full-page style news listing. [geojeff]
0.1
Initial release. [disko]
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