Latestnews +

An enhancement to Joomla Latest News Module, Additional Thumbnail and Date creation

Want to have more from standart Latest News Joomla module with introtext and thumbnail and dates maybe? Then this LatestNews+ is for you.

Latestnews+, an enhancement of standart Joomla latest news module, could gives you a newsportal or magazine looks by displaying your latest articles with a or some numbers of introtexts with dates and thumbnail images using one or more LatestNews+ modules published in the same page.

Features

• Option to show or not the introtext (to display just a list of articles like the standart Latest News module but with dates)
• Now with option to set the numbers of introtexts
• Option to show or hide article dates
• More date format to choose, so you won't get un-translated month in your article dates
• Set your own article image thumbnail dimension

Changelog

 Version 4.0.0 - 05-07-22
* Unified version. Changed codebase for Joomla 4 version. Now Latest News + Joomla 3 and 4 use the same installation file
- Fixed Image thumbnail from incorrect image path
- Bug fixes

Version 3.0.3 (J4) - 01-10-21
- Fixed Joomla 4 compatibility issues

Version 3.0.1 - 10-04-2020
- Added multilanguage support for date format

Version 3.0.0 - 31-01-2020
* Refactoring, major codebase changed
- Added Joomla 4 support

Version 2.1.3 - 15/01/2015
- Fixed image in the introtext is not displayed issue
Version 2.1.2 - 15/01/2015
- Single version for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.x
- Various bug fixes and improvements
Version 2.1.1 - 22/10/2013
- Fixed all errors / warning / notice in PHP 5.4
Version 2.1 - 21/11/2012
+ Added Support for intro and fulltext images uploaded from Article Parameters has been added. Now the thumbnail images source can be either from intro or fulltext image parameter or inserted image from Editor
* All included functions in helper.php now changed as class members
+ Added image.php file for thumbnail processing (borrowed from JoomlaBamboo's)
Version 2.0 J.3 Version - 5/10/2012
+ Added New Joomla! 3.0 version
Version 2.0 - 15/01/2012
+ Initial Release