A GOOD and versatile news manager needed

[mvlcek]

I have seen News Manager and Dominion Blog, and they both fall short of being really good news managers. News Manager sorely lacks categories.

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Anyone out there willing to help?

I'm currently in the process of writing a plugin I18N Special Pages:

• similar to Items Manager, but all items are pages
  
• based on I18N Custom Fields, but multiple sets of custom fields can be defined, e.g. a set "product" and a set "news"
  
• easy, but fully customizable way to display the special pages with all custom fields
  
• easy customizable way to display the special pages in search results of I18N Search
  
• together with I18N Search you can get a news or blog behaviour
  
• multiple "categories" by the use of keywords, thus I18N Search allows you to filter the results, e.g. showing all news or just the "technology" news or "software" news.
  
• as everything is a page, you can include it in the navigation, search it, all plugins working with pages will work with these "special" pages, etc.
  

Disadvantages:

• everything is in the page list, but with the I18N plugin's pages view you can easily filter the pages by keyword or title
  

Donations welcome ;-)