| XF 2.3 Add-ons (✨GOLD +) [XenCustomize] News Publisher: Home Page, Portal & CMS 2.3.12.1

Feature List (v2.3.x)

• 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 4 display modes:
    • Card Grid
    • Compact List
    • Expanded List
    • Standout Card Grid (v2.3.1)
  • 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.
• Scheduled News Publication (v2.3.7)
  • Publication options on the news creation page, allowing users to choose between:
    • Publish Now
    • Schedule Publication
  • "Scheduled" label next to news titles for clear identification.
  • Block status message to indicate scheduled news and publication time.
  • Reschedule Publication (pencil icon) button for quick rescheduling.
  • Publish Now button to immediately publish a scheduled news.
  • Your Scheduled News navigation link for easy access to all scheduled news.
  • Moderator permission: "View scheduled news".
  • Publish Scheduled News cron entry, running every 5 minutes to automatically publish scheduled news.
• News Story View
  • Title
  • Buttons
    • Reschedule Publication (v2.3.7)
    • Publish Now (v2.3.7)
    • Comments
    • Watch
    • Share
    • Bookmark
    • More options menu
      • Edit news
      • Edit news thumbnail
      • Manage feature (XF 2.3+)
      • Move news
      • Reassign news
      • Change discussion thread
      • Delete news
      • Select for moderation
        • Delete
        • Undelete
        • Approve
        • Unapprove
        • Feature (XF 2.3+)
        • Unfeature (XF 2.3+)
        • 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
• 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
• Convert threads to News stories (v2.3.6)
• 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 (XF 2.3+)
    • 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: Standout Card grid)
        • Card grid
        • Compact list
        • Expanded list
        • Standout card grid (v2.3.1)
    • Available fields
    • Available prefixes
    • Require users to select a prefix
  • Sort categories
  • Delete category
  • Add sibling or child category
  • Category permissions
  • Category filters
• 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 Thumbnail Fallback Options (v2.3.1)
  • Added support for external image URLs as a secondary fallback when no news thumbnail is uploaded.
  • Moved the default thumbnail image to the third fallback option, utilizing the default thumbnail set in style properties.
  • Updated various templates to ensure consistent display of images, thumbnails, and avatars across different views.
• 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(XF 2.3+)
  • 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(XF 2.3+)
  • 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
  • Display Mode - Card Grid
  • Display Mode - Expanded List
  • Display Mode - Compact List
  • Display Mode - Standout Card Grid (v2.3.1)
• Widgets
  • Latest News
  • Latest Comments
  • Statistics
  • Featured News(XF 2.3+)
  • Trending News(XF 2.3+)
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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 scheduled news (XF 2.3+)(v2.3.7)
  • View unapproved news
  • Approve / unapprove news
  • Feature / unfeature news (XF 2.3+)
  • 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
  • Publish scheduled news (v2.3.7)
  • Update view counters
  • Feeder
  • Cache statistics
• Rebuild caches
  • Rebuild news
  • Rebuild news categories
  • Optimize news thumbnails (XF 2.3+)
  • Rebuild user news counts
  • Rebuild news embed metadata
    • Attachments
• Embed your News Stories anywhere!(XF2.3+)
  • You can now embed News Publisher stories across your site using the new EMBED BBCode. Simply paste a News story URL into any Rich Text Editor (RTE) that supports embedding.