Mini Frontpage

Mini Frontpage is an advanced news display module for Joomla. It displays the joomla articles from selected categories with date, thumbnail, excerpt in various design and layout. It’s simple and easy to use. It also comes with many parameters to configure, to help you to create a good looking news block for your Joomla website quickly.

Features

  • Multiple item support, you can publish multiple Minifrontpage modules in the same page
  • Responsive Design, the module will look good in any device
  • Flexible parameters to suit your needs, from basic parameters such article category source, show hide introtext with trim function, articles filter etc, to theme based parameters such as number of column, custom date format, thumbnail posistion etc
  • Theme skin, each theme may comes with some skins for alternate style. If you know css, you can make your own theme skin and upload it to Minifrontpage skin folder
  • CSS adjustment. 
If you just need to make small style modification, there’s also a css adjustment field to add css override/modification without touching the physical file.
  • Joomla 4 ready
  • etc

Standard Version vs Pro

Mini Frontpage
Mini Frontpage
Mini Frontpage Pro
Mini Frontpage Pro
Theme 3 9
All Basic Mini Frontpage Functions and Theme Yes Yes
K2 Version No Yes
Custom Fields Support No Yes
Generate thumbnail from external website / source No Yes
Youtube as item background (Depends on Theme) No Yes
Time ago date format No Yes
More Advanced Settings on Thumbnails, Ordering etc No Yes
Webp support No Yes
Other Pro features and functions No Yes
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Changelog

Legend [+] = Added [-] = Fixed [*] = Changed [^] = Moved [x] = Deleted
 Version 4.0.0 - 03-07-22
* Unified version. Changed codebase for Joomla 4 version. Now Minifrontpage for Joomla 3 and 4 use the same installation file
- Bug fixes

Version 3.1.4 - 05-10-21
- Fixed issue when having image path inside article body with foreword slash
- Fixed JCE Issue

Version 3.1.3 (J4 Version) - 01-10-21
- Fixed 'custom default thumbnail' issue in J4 version

Version 3.1.2 - 23-09-21
- Fixed some issues with Joomla 4
- Added some improvements on thumbnail generation process
- Other bugfixes and improvements

Version 3.1.1 - 04-03-21
- Fixed image not found when trying to generate thumbnail, when wrong image url inserted
- Fixed carousel themes (also Carousel Big and XT) issue on tablet (iPad)
- Fixed some issues with Joomla 4 Beta

Version 3.1.0 - 18-09-20
+ Added IE 11 support for carousel theme
+ Added Tag Filtering 
+ Added custom period input
+ Filter by Publish date now will show publish date instead of created date
- Fixed custom default thumbnail file when *.png file is used

Version 3.0.2 - 07-02-2020
+ Added static file versioning for better update-safe
- Filter by modified date now will show modified date instead of created date
- Fixed issue with image with spacing in its filename when image is added using wysiwyg editor
- Fixed flicker load issue with carousel theme

Version 3.0.1 - 07-02-2020
- Changed time range field from text input into select in the module's backend

Version 3.0.0 - 30-01-2020
* Codebase refactoring
+ Joomla 4 Support

Version 2.2.3 - 2/06/2014
+ Added modified date option to article ordering
- Fixed word cut problem with UTF8 languages

Version 2.2.2 - 25/05/2013
- Fixed php 5.3 issue, missing intro and full images check

Version 2.2.1 - 29/12/2012
- Fixed thumbnail alignment option to work on all theme layouts

Version 2.2.0 - 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 (thanks to JoomlaBamboo's for the file)

Version 2.1.4 J.3 Version - 5/10/2012
+ Added New Joomla! 3.0 version
Version 2.1.4
- Fixed the trouble about multibyte functions in PHP for non-english symbols
* Changed the installation version in xml to become fully 2.5

Version 2.1.3
- Fixed the trouble about the Division by Zero (at Joomla 2.5 Native)

Version 2.1.2
- Fixed the trouble about the Article Title still appear in spite off at the parameter as NO

Version 2.1.1
- Fixed the trouble about zeros are not displaying in the introtext

Version 2.1
+ Add The option of Featured Articles

Version 2.0 - 15/01/2012
+ Initial Release 2.0 version           

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  • Created at 2 Aug 2007
  • Updated at 3 Jul 2022
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  • Supported Platform Joomla 3.x - 4.1+