Extension:News2

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News Release status: beta
Implementation	Tag
Description	The News extension allows to show the latest articles of a specific category, default is News.
Author(s)	Erich
MediaWiki	1.15
License	GPL
Download	http://www.erichsteiger.com/images/4/40/News_0.0.2.tar.gz
Example	http://www.erichsteiger.com
Parameters rows: number of rows to show, title: the h2 title to be displayed on top, category: articles to be shown from that category
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The News extension allows to show the latest articles of a specific category, default is News.

Installing

• Download the News_0.0.2.tar.gz and unpack it in your mediawiki extensions subfolder

• Then add the following line to your LocalSettings.php file (near the end):

require_once( "$IP/extensions/News/News.php" );

Usage

<news>

this includes a list of elements from the category "News". The last added entry comes first

<news rows="5">

limits the list to 5 elements. This means the last 5 News entries will be shown

<news title="FooBar">

shows the title "FooBar" on top

<news category="FooBar">

shows elements from Category "FooBar". Default is "News"