News Plugin 📰

Merlls_Rizzini · May 17, 2019, 1:17am

Angus, I’m not able to participate cause I’m from Brazil and it’s not available here.

See you PMs.

angus · May 17, 2019, 1:48am

Strange! If the pool doesn’t work, you can send me a contribution here and I’ll add it in manually.

Also, with the features you pm’d me, if you could add them in a short list here (hide the pics using the ‘details’ feature so the post isn’t huge ). That way other folks can see what is potentially on the agenda. Thanks!

Merlls_Rizzini · May 17, 2019, 3:12am

Add better formatting support (e.g. bold and italic)
Add a character limit for excerpts.
Add a like button

You already listed them here.

Hiryuu · May 17, 2019, 2:11am

Same “problem” with me, I’m from Brazil too.
Gonna talk with the other admins of the forum we run to see if anyone think about any other feature to be add.

Merlls_Rizzini · May 17, 2019, 2:15am

O dólar todo dia aumentando tá um saco, né…

angus · May 17, 2019, 6:47am

Send your contribution to me directly and I’ll add it in. Just make sure you tag the transaction as for the News Plugin.

We’re getting close to the target already. If you have features you want for this plugin, now’s your chance.

Ziil · May 17, 2019, 7:38pm

Great and very promising plugin, made also one quick mockup for layout ideas. Multiple tags option would be also nice and useful, what could be considered:

merefield · May 17, 2019, 8:07pm

That looks a lot like Topic List Previews ‘tiles’ view

Merlls_Rizzini · May 17, 2019, 8:28pm

You’re already can have something similar as merefield said.

Hiryuu · May 19, 2019, 12:44am

One thing that’s not a feature, but something more pleasing to the eyes… there’s a way to make the link be highlighted when we hover the cursor, like the others?

hover

angus · June 18, 2019, 3:03am

For round 2 of work on this plugin we so far have

Feature List

New feed sources:
- RSS
- More than one category
Display options:
- A ‘featured’ news item
Format and layout improvements:
- Formatting support
- Character limit
New functionality
- Like button
- Total replies
- Category of the post
Other improvements
- Filter pinned topics
- Highlight news link on hover

An additional item requested by @Jeremie_Leroy is implementing the Topic List Previews Tiles layout in the news feed. @Jeremie_Leroy I’ll see how it goes with the other items on the list, and if there is time to add this as an additional feature in this round of work I’ll do so.

Sponsors

So far:

Sponsors, if there’s anything on the above feature list you don’t want to use on your site, let me know now and I’ll make a site setting to turn it off when building the feature.

If you’d like to help sponsor this plugin and / or have a specific feature request, you have until Friday to get on board this round of work.

*edit this round is now closed.

bintom · June 4, 2019, 7:48am

@angus thank for doing this. I am waiting for the day its release

angus · June 5, 2019, 7:39am

Item 1 of v0.2 of this plugin has been pushed. Details here: News Plugin v0.2 - Tasks - Pavilion

cc @Jeremie_Leroy @Merlls_Rizzini @Hiryuu

angus · June 11, 2019, 5:18am

Another update on v0.2 work has been published here: News Plugin v0.2 - Tasks - Pavilion

cc @Jeremie_Leroy @Merlls_Rizzini @Hiryuu

angus · June 18, 2019, 10:30am

We’re getting close to finishing the v0.2 work on this plugin. There’s a full update here:

@Merlls_Rizzini and @Hiryuu, I’ll need your advice on some items there to finish it off! Thanks guys

Merlls_Rizzini · June 19, 2019, 8:19pm

Angus, the topic’s content is not showing here, only the title.

Oldest topics are showing also above newest topics in the timeline.

SidV · June 23, 2019, 11:47pm

@angus, is this correct? Check line #11:

github.com

angusmcleod/discourse-news/blob/master/config/locales/server.en.yml#L11


en:
  site_settings:
    discourse_news_enabled: "News enabled"
    discourse_news_source: "News source"
    discourse_news_category: "News category"
    discourse_news_rss: "News rss feed"
    discourse_news_icon: "News icon (font awesome class or image url)"
    discourse_news_excerpt_length: "News excerpt character length"
    discourse_news_meta: "Show topic meta in news topics"


    errors:
      topic_list_previews_not_installed: "The News Plugin requires the Topic List Previews Plugin to be installed"

The blank line 10 is correct?

zogstrip · July 3, 2019, 2:17pm

Yes.

In YAML, parent > child relation is based on indentation only.

So here, errors is a child of site_settings.

SidV · July 3, 2019, 8:19pm

OK.

I will translate this to Spanish … PR coming

Spanish Translations by SidVal · Pull Request #1 · angusmcleod/discourse-news · GitHub

angus · July 26, 2019, 4:00am

Just fixed an ordering bug with this plugin: