sheadawson/silverstripe-newsly

A simple and configurable news module for SilverStripe CMS

1.0.2 2015-12-14 04:27 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.2
• micmania1/silverstripe-lumberjack: 1.0.*
• sheadawson/quickaddnew: 1.1.*
• silverstripe/cms: ~3.1
• silverstripe/framework: ~3.1

BSD-3-Clause

• Shea Dawson

• cms
• news
• silverstripe

README

Newsly is a simple news/blog module for SilverStripe. It aims to offer configurable and optional features that cater to a range of common news-section requirements.

Requirements

• SilverStripe ~3.1
• Lumberjack
• Quickaddnew

Maintainers

• [e-mail]

Features

• NewsHolder and NewsArticle page types
• Articles managed in gridfield with lumberjack
• Articles can have images and attachments (optional)
• Articles can have tags (optional)
• Related articles (related via shared tags)
• Article Authors (optional, can be configured as a simple string or a NewsAuthor object/profile)
• Archive list, Tag list functions

Installation

composer require sheadawson/silverstripe-newsly

Configuration

The following configurations can be set in your yml config:

NewsArticle:
  setting: value

Setting	Description	Options	Default
enable_attachments	Enables a file attachment field in the NewsArticle CMSFields	boolean	true
enable_images	Enable documents to be attached to articles	boolean	true
enable_summary	Enables a Summary HTMLText field on NewsArticle, to be used for the article introduction/summary.	boolean	true
enable_tags	Enables Article Tagging. Disable this to remove the Tag field from the News Article CMS Fields	boolean	true
enable_featured_articles	Enables a "Feature this Article" check box to the News Article CMS Fields. You can use this to feature worthy articles on a home page, for example	boolean	true
image_folder	Folder where article images should be stored	string	news/images
attachment_folder	Folder where article attachments should be stored	string	news/attachments
author_mode	Author mode can be: - string "string" to enable an Author text field (default) - string "object" to enable Author DataObject - boolean false to disable Article Authors	string	boolean