Plugin can be used for publishing news simply on the website. In contrary of blog, writing comments is not possible, but visitors can subscribe on a newsletter system. During publishing news posts are available not just on the website but you can send them via email to subscribed users.
Plugin is same like put together a blog and a newsletter plugin. The main difference is that it is simpler and contains only the most necessary functions. So this makes easier uploading new contents and inform visitors.
- Main features
- Statistics and graphs
- Automatic statistics
- Preview feature
- Available widgets
- Available components
- HTML template variables
- Mail template variables
- Supported plugins
- Available languages
- Installation
- Add back-end widgets
- Credits
- Managing posts
- Managing categories
- Managing subscribers
- Export & Import data
- Statistics and graphs
- Send newsletter
- Detailed mail logs
- Front-end forms
- Back-end widgets
- Graph - Posts in this year
- Graph - Posts in last year
- List - TOP 20 view posts
- List - TOP 10 longest posts
- List - TOP 10 shortest posts
- Graph - Mail events
- Graph - Mail summary
You just add the "Post content" frontend component to the page, where the post appears. If you are logged in as administrator, the counter will not grow. It works any cases, when the visitors open the post details.
You just add the "Post content" frontend component to the current page. If you modify a news, the "Preview" link appears along the left of the delete icon. If you are logged in as administrator, you can read the hidden and draft news too.
You can use the following widgets on the back-end Dashboard:
- Post statistics
- Subscriber statistics
- List of TOP posts
- List of new posts
Use the Components > News panel in CMS menu. At this moment there are the following components:
- Display posts
- Post content
- List categories
- Subscriber form
- Unsubscribe form
- {{ posts }} - List of posts in array
- {{ post.title }} - Title of post
- {{ post.slug }} - Slug of post
- {{ post.image|media }} - Full url of post image
- {{ post.introductory|raw }} - Summary of post
- {{ post.content|raw }} - Content of post
- {{ post.published_at }} - Published date of post
- {{ post.category }} - ID of category (0: no category selected)
- {{ post.status }} - Status of post (1: published, 2: hide, 3: draft)
- {{ post.featured }} - Is post featured? (1: yes, 2: no)
- {{ name }} - Name of subscriber
- {{ email }} - E-mail of subscriber
- {{ title }} - Title of post
- {{ slug }} - Slug of post
- {{ introductory }} - Introductory of post
- {{ summary }} - alias of Introductory
- {{ content }} - Content of post
- {{ image }} - Relative path of image
- en - English
- de - Deutsch
- ru - Pу́сский
- pl - Polski
- hu - Magyar
- Go to the Settings > Updates & Plugins page in the Backend.
- Click on the Install plugins button.
- Type the News & Newsletter text in the search field.
- Go to the Dashboard page in the Backend.
- Click on the Manage widgets > Add widget button.
- Select the any News widgets from the list.