# תוסף חדשות 📃 **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971 **Category:** Plugin **Tags:** pavilion, broken **Created:** [30 בינואר,‏ 2019,‏ 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971 "2019-01-30T22:26:05Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 8
### Author: ![xgp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xgp/32/317650_2.png) [@xgp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xgp) #### Post date: [27 ביולי,‏ 2023,‏ 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/148 "2023-07-27T18:18:24Z")
Looks like it works with `3.0.5` if I use the sha just before that commit. (`289c736c65841578ac9022923581828f089fccac`) 🙌 Thanks for all of your help @merefield Do you know if it’s possible to make the News page the default/home page? ---
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [27 ביולי,‏ 2023,‏ 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/149 "2023-07-27T18:49:08Z")
You could use the theme api, or simply install this: > [@Allow Arbitrary Homepage (by Jay Pfaffman)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-arbitrary-homepage-by-jay-pfaffman/152459): > > Well, @hellekin thought that this deserved its own topic. I’m not quite sure it’s ready for such, but here it is. I’ll have a look at stuff early next week and try to make sure that it looks like something that other people could really use. wink As he said: and set it to `/news` ---
### Author: ![seyuf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/seyuf/32/323250_2.png) [@seyuf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seyuf) #### Post date: [29 באוגוסט,‏ 2023,‏ 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/150 "2023-08-29T18:24:01Z")
Hi there, i don’t know why? But i’m having trouble with this plugin since 3 discourse update ago. I get : ` Error while processing route: news Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'can_create_topic') TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'can_create_topic')` Full details in the [issue on github repo](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-news/issues/6). Any help will be much appreciated. ---
### Author: ![seyuf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/seyuf/32/323250_2.png) [@seyuf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seyuf) #### Post date: [22 בנובמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/151 "2023-11-22T14:07:54Z")
Anybody to help ? ---
### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus) #### Post date: [22 בנובמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/152 "2023-11-22T14:36:54Z")
Sorry, I’m a bit too busy right now. There have been a few changes in Discourse that have affected this plugin (moving it to broken for now). Ping me again in a week or so. I might have some more time. ---
### Author: ![Thomas\_Rother](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thomas_rother/32/423597_2.png) [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother) #### Post date: [8 בדצמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 8:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/153 "2023-12-08T08:40:57Z")
Question for @angus on the [GitHub - paviliondev/discourse-news: Adds a news stream to your Discourse instance · GitHub](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-news) plugin (before digging into the code myself - I am not an UX specialist …) I dont understand the required syntax in the entry fields for _discourse news rss_ and _discourse news icon_ For the news icon, I played with the code examples from > [@Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643): > > See also: [We're upgrading our icons to Font Awesome 6!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-upgrading-our-icons-to-font-awesome-6/325349) We will shortly merge into master a [branch](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/fontawesome5) that upgrades Discourse to Font Awesome 5.5.0 (the free version) and switches to using SVG icons instead of an icon font. This is a substantial change, with lots of benefits, and one significant change for developers. Here is a quick rundown of the changes: using SVG icons will provide crisper icons, better for accessibility and easier to customize, see [this Github article](https://blog.github.com/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/) for more details since… but without success for “fa-newspaper” yet … ---
### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger) #### Post date: [8 בדצמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 8:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/154 "2023-12-08T08:45:00Z")
As it’s a third-party plugin, I’ve slipped your post over to the relevant plugin topic. 👍 Though it looks like this one has the #broken tag at the minute (not sure if that affects your issue though). ---
### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus) #### Post date: [8 בדצמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/155 "2023-12-08T13:05:21Z")
Hey @Thomas_Rother. If you can get this plugin to work for you (caveat it seems to be broken for some as @JammyDodger mentioned), then there’s two lists of fontawesome icons in Discourse which will give you the exact name you need to use. There’s this one, which is the one that Discourse loads by default (i.e. will always work if you just use the right name) > And there’s icons in the Fontawesome SVGs in Discourse (The name is the `id` on the symbol). The icons in the SVG which are not listed in `lib/svg_sprite.rb` will work if they’re loaded by a plugin or theme. > **[discourse/vendor/assets/svg-icons at main · discourse/discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/vendor/assets/svg-icons)** > > main/vendor/assets/svg-icons So for `fa-newspaper`, it looks like: 1. It’s not in the list in `lib/svg_sprite.rb` meaning that Discourse does not load it by default; 2. There is a `newspaper` in the `fontawesome/regular.svg` and `fontawesome/solid.svg` So to use it in the News plugin you’d need to load `newspaper` in a theme or plugin following the steps laid out in > [@Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643): > > See also: [We're upgrading our icons to Font Awesome 6!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-upgrading-our-icons-to-font-awesome-6/325349) We will shortly merge into master a [branch](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/fontawesome5) that upgrades Discourse to Font Awesome 5.5.0 (the free version) and switches to using SVG icons instead of an icon font. This is a substantial change, with lots of benefits, and one significant change for developers. Here is a quick rundown of the changes: using SVG icons will provide crisper icons, better for accessibility and easier to customize, see [this Github article](https://blog.github.com/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/) for more details since… ---
### Author: ![seyuf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/seyuf/32/323250_2.png) [@seyuf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seyuf) #### Post date: [9 בדצמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 10:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/156 "2023-12-09T22:59:55Z")
Thanks for the reply and for this very useful plugin. It would be nice to have a fix someday. I understand it may be linked to this ? [DEV: Refactor discovery routes to remove use of 'named outlets' (#22622) · discourse/discourse@82d6d69 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/82d6d691eec9e97c88d67182bcbc583461e3e0dc) Hopefully, someone versed in discourse can help. Bests ---
### Author: ![manuel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manuel/32/468169_2.png) [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel) #### Post date: [10 בדצמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/157 "2023-12-10T09:32:51Z")
> [@angus](#): > > So to use it in the News plugin you’d need to load `newspaper` in a theme or plugin following the steps laid out in As an aside, won’t it do to just add it to `svg icon subset` in admin/settings ? ![SmartSelect_20231210_092450_Fennec](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/3/2/c32de6c215d5fc87c03a10de49eccc724e972ac1.jpeg) ---
### Author: ![hemes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hemes/32/340413_2.png) [@hemes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hemes) #### Post date: [16 במאי,‏ 2024,‏ 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/158 "2024-05-16T14:14:06Z")
I found this plugin and it looks very interesting and most likely will accomplish exactly what I am looking for. After a bit I noticed the `broken` tag. Can this still (safely) be installed? ---
### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank) #### Post date: [31 במאי,‏ 2024,‏ 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/159 "2024-05-31T05:52:05Z")
In short, no. But the [coop.pavilion.tech](https://coop.pavilion.tech) developers would likely be willing to get it working + maintain it if you have a budget. Alternatively, you can achieve something very similar using Topic List Previews (and maybe Sidebar Blocks). ---
### Author: ![Steve\_John](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steve_john/32/435022_2.png) [@Steve\_John](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_John) #### Post date: [9 באוגוסט,‏ 2024,‏ 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/160 "2024-08-09T17:13:01Z")
Even I am looking forward for this news plugin fix to utilize this nice feature. ---
### Author: ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK) #### Post date: [18 בדצמבר,‏ 2024,‏ 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/161 "2024-12-18T20:57:46Z")
@Angus how much$ and time would it cost to get this plugin updated to work with the current version of Discourse? And with infinite scroll for the main news feed. I’m potentially interested in getting this updated. I’ve been using it for the past 3 years (and its generally great, obviously with some limitations), but I’m currently stuck on the following version of Discourse: 2.9.0.beta9 and would like to move to the latest version of Discourse. ---
### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus) #### Post date: [19 בדצמבר,‏ 2024,‏ 8:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/162 "2024-12-19T08:02:22Z")
> [@BCHK](#): > > I’ve been using it for the past 3 years (and its generally great, obviously with some limitations) Glad to hear it! For me to work on this now it’d be at least $1k, possibly a bit more. Because: - I’d take time from other work. - I’d have to write tests for it. - it hasn’t been updated in a while. So if that’s in budget shoot me a PM and I’ll give you a proper quote 👍 Alternatively, if you can get at least five real communities that currently use it to reach out, I’ll do it for free in my spare time (the “community interest” option). ---
### Author: ![MarkB2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@MarkB2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarkB2) #### Post date: [31 בינואר,‏ 2025,‏ 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/163 "2025-01-31T12:12:26Z")
Hi Are there any instructions as such in terms of how to set this up? I have installed the plugin, enabled the plugin, selected Discourse news to be enabled, completed all the mandatory fields (using BBC rss feed as a test) and I do not see anything against the Discourse News Category ---
### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster) #### Post date: [31 בינואר,‏ 2025,‏ 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/164 "2025-01-31T12:41:38Z")
Well, it is tagged as broken. Perhaps you should not waste time with it? ---
### Author: ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK) #### Post date: [6 במאי,‏ 2025,‏ 1:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/165 "2025-05-06T01:55:35Z")
[ציטוט=“angus, פוסט:162, נושא:107971”] אפשרות אחרת, אם תוכל להגיע לפחות לחמש קהילות אמיתיות כיום המשתמשות בכך כדי ליצור קשר, אעשה זאת בחינם בזמני הפנוי (אפשרות “עניין קהילתי”). [/ציטוט] האם מישהו מעוניין נוסף בשימוש בתוסף החדשות הזה (אני אוהב אותו ובניתי אתר סביבו) והיה מעוניין שיתעדכן לפעול בגרסה הכי אחרונה של Discourse? אנא הוסף תגובה כאן אם אתה מעוניין, או פנה אליי ישירות. ---
### Author: ![Costalfy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/costalfy/32/549028_2.png) [@Costalfy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Costalfy) #### Post date: [22 באפריל,‏ 2026,‏ 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/166 "2026-04-22T07:56:59Z")
Hi, I just install [who’s online](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-whos-online/52345/437) official plugin and now your plugin doesn’t work anymore. I don’t understand why? can you help me? ---
### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal) #### Post date: [22 באפריל,‏ 2026,‏ 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/167 "2026-04-22T07:57:55Z")
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