News Manager

[yojoe]

Yes I will, though probably not all the changes you propose. I prefer this plugin to be simple without compromising on usability of course. More specifically, It's not my goal to turn this plugin into a blog because I think it would be difficult to integrate it nicely into GS. If you want a blog, then maybe you better use a blog oriented CMS.

Blog was just an easy example.
The most important thing is some kind of a plugin, allowing to create multiple article instances.
It would be as well a clever plugin for portfolio-like websites.
I'm personally not a bloger type of web user, but as a frontend dev I think on all possible aspects of things

Thus, for now, translations and a more sophisticated pagination seem like workable additions, the others I'm not sure of. A preview option is actually not that easy, because you need to know on which page (template) the user shows his articles. This is something the plugin only knows about when called via the show_articles() function, and therefore not when you are in the admin section.

I would like to try to handle translation by importing i18n function and using translation vars from GS translation files. Because it contains all needed captions.

About preview: I thought about generating a button on the article list next to delete button.
Exactly like it is with pages. I think that it shouldn't be a hassle to add generating a column with direct links to articles. I didn't mean to open articles inside admin panel, although showing their content in a jquery window or tooltip would give a fast way to preview them.
Anyway, it would be just a fancy feature.

Having 2 instances of the news plugin won't work just like that, because duplicate functions confuses GS; you'd have to rename the function names of the second instance.

Was a bit late when I was posting. I know it's not that simple, as it would have to have some changes in the code, especially paths and some of variables.
If I had to urgently have additional instance, I'd do it on my own. But there's no sense to do it for wider audience, and I like to share everything I can achieve, as long as it's easy to use by other users.

That said, you are of course free to alter the plugin in any way you want and post your contributions here, or start your own plugin. In any way, please continue giving me feedback and feature requests, as it will improve this plugin!

I'll post latest change, as I added some minor functionalities like [read more] button, or moved couple elements. Still hadn't time to mess with rewrite rules, although I was trying to understand how the link to articles is generated. I'm used to rewrite links with .html at the end so it makes it a bit messed up.

I wish I could start my own development, but my knowledge of programming is very basic, and there's no chance for me to create such news plugin alone.