andyash Wrote:I'm at a loss here. I have poster a couple of posts in the modified News Manager. There is a picture in the first paragraph but it is not visible in the excerpt view. How do I get it there? And where do I use the

.compilation article p img {
margin : 5px 10px 0px 0px;
width : 160px;
padding : 4px;
border : 1px solid #d3d0bc;
background-color : #e9e6d3;
float : left;
height:auto;
}

code so it shows the image inside the excerpt as small but large inside the post view? Which code needs to be given the .compilation class?

mikeh Wrote:1. Open up the following file,
     plugins/news_manager/inc/functions.php
2. Look for the following function (should be around line 150 or so):
     nm_create_excerpt($content)
3. Inside that function delete the following line:
     $content = strip_tags($content);
4. Save the file and you see images in excerpts now.

mvlcek Wrote:

Oleg06 Wrote:I18N Search very good plugin for creating news with categories, sorry that he can not display images in a short news

It is already possible with the advanced features:

• Install I18N Custom Fields
  
• add a custom image field, e.g. named picture
  I have created this component but where in the template do I call it?
  And the News Manager doesn't even allow access to the custom_field while creating/editing a blog post, so how do I add it?
  
• when editing the news item page, add an image link in this field
  
• create a component like decribed here, modify it, if necessary, and add an img tag to it (whereever you want the image):
  

Code:

<img src="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($item->picture); ?>" />

• call the I18N Search plugin like described here with a component parameter pointing to the created component.
  

There is also a simple alternative:

• include the image in the first paragraph of the page
  
• call the search results with parameter numWords=1p (1 paragraph), which should output the HTML of the first paragraph including the picture.
  

mikeh Wrote:Here is a modified version of the news manager plugin with rss feed, categories, and an automatic RSS feed importer (to automatically import content from external rss feeds).. I am not currently offering any support on it do to time. Sorry everyone, i've been holding on to this for like 6 months ..

Edit: The automatic RSS importer attempts to setup the cron job automatically if you choose to use it.. If it does not setup (due to your server), you will have to manually set the cron job up.. instructions on how to do this are displayed if it fails.

Edit 2: I would unzip this into your root directory. I recommend looking at the stripped down template file in the theme folder of the zip to see the functions.

mikeh Wrote:1. Open up the following file,
     plugins/news_manager/inc/functions.php
2. Look for the following function (should be around line 150 or so):
     nm_create_excerpt($content)
3. Inside that function delete the following line:
     $content = strip_tags($content);
4. Save the file and you see images in excerpts now.

n00dles101 Wrote:I'm doing up a tutorial for my site which has blogging/news setup just using mclvek's Customfields plugin and some php functions handle everything else (paging, categories, tagcloud, search etc... )

check it out here: http://www.digimute.com

The basic setup is;

o - setup customfields
- publishdate - date its was published
- author - author of post
- comments - whether comments are enabled on post or not
- shortdescription - for excerpts
o - setup a blank page called "news", a second one for "blog" if needed
o - all news items are normal pages created with "news" or whatever as the parent.
o - Tags & keywords are used for categories.
o - as all news items are normal pages plugins etc can use as normal.

On my site I use the external comments plugin for handling comments.

So no messing about with plugins or extra tabs for the client. They just create pages as normal.

The only problem at this stage is that it runs on 3.1 which is still in beta.

I'll have the tutorial done by the weekend and post it up.


Mike....