The News Plugin adds a new โNewsโ route to your forum. The latest topics in a category(s) (or from an RSS feed) are displayed in a large, news-like format, with an optional sidebar with a topic list. It adds a link to the News route in the header bar.
It is inspired by the Elektronauts news feed.
Not sure how to install a plugin? Follow the steps here.
Make sure you check out all the site settings for this plugin by searching for โNewsโ in your admin settings.
I just tried the demo site and got an error stating that you canโt view the News feed without logging in. Is that by design?
Originally yes, but not for the public version. Iโve fixed that. Thanks!
Yes, but it would require a fair bit more work. Happy to do this as a paid job.
Amazing plugin. I have more ideas to discuss with Angus to make it even better.
@angus awesome plugin, thank you!
Would it be possible to display topics in โNewsโ by a tag(s) rather than a category? In my forum, would be great if users could post topics in any category and a โnewsโ tag, which then aggregate all of those topics to a single News feed (regardless of category).
Hey @angus, great plugin! My community also enjoys the Topic List Preview, so thank you for that!
I made some quick mockup to see if itโs possible in future releases of News plugin to have some layout and posts options:
I like suggested idea to display tagged topics on the News page.
I hope the development of this plugin can help communities to move from Wordpress or using two platforms into one. This type of CSMish approach will do for us. We have reviews and some articles which we will like to present in a different way than standard Discourse posts. I imagine using the News page as the front page of the website. Thanks again!
Yes, this is possible, but I wonโt be able to fit it in as an open source task for a while.
This is great! Thanks for that design inspiration. Iโm may well get to this one soonish given itโs mostly style change 
Hi, this is an interesting plugin. I want to confirm something before I install and rebuild my instance.
My discourse instance is set to private, but once in a while I also want to write public content, something like a blog page, that people can see it without logging in. Will this plugin allow me to do such things?
FYI Iโm nearly ready to release a new feature for the โtilesโ view in Topic List Previews that doubles the width of โfeaturedโ items so they take up 2 columns instead of 1.
update:this was implemented.
Suggestion: Would be great if we could select multiple categories to include in the news feed.
Iโm just getting a 500 internal server error when i visit whatever category I apply this to. Iโve followed the directions and have Topic List Previews installed (and working on another category), but this wonโt work. Hereโs a photo:
Not currently, no. If your site is private guests will not be able to access /news.
Great suggestion. Iโve scheduled this in for early May: https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/t/news-plugin-select-multiple-categories-to-include-in-the-news-feed/832
@rioforce Are you still experiencing this issue? if so can you check your /logs to see if thereโs anything related to this plugin? Thanks.
Itโs narrowed on purpose. You could change this via a css rule in a theme.
Note, the topic list headers seemed to have creeped back into this plugin, Iโll be removing them on Friday.
Iโm probably doing something very wrong to donโt get what I want, butโฆ how can I change the โNewsโ for an icon?
I trying doing this through CSS/Header, it โworksโ (icon is clickable and redirects to the news page), but instead of replacing the โNewsโ it creates the icon in the upper left corner of the pageโฆ
<a class="widget-link header-nav-link" href="/news" title="News"><img alt="" src="/uploads/default/original/1X/26a6ef477d2310aea094143ee736c9ba959b1f6e.png" title="News" width="32" height="32"></a>
Hey, thanks for giving the plugin a shot 
Iโve added a setting for a news โiconโ. It supports fontawesome classes or image urls.
https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-news/commit/c4e32499b8bf4c43633baad8ceffbe9fbcb6233b
Example: https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au
Hey, thank you!!
Iโm working in some tests on migrating a phpbb forum to Discourse and really like your plugin. Thanks for implementing an icon option so fast 
Hi All,
We are willing to sponsor a feature of the news plugin. The Feature we would like to add to it is :
Would they be other people willing to sponsor feature of the news plugin for example :
Other ideas ? features ?
Best,
@Jeremie_Leroy Thanks!
Jeremie reached out to me about sponsoring the RSS feed feature and I suggested there may be some others interested in upgrading this plugin.
If others are interested in using this plugin, but need a few tweaks, nowโs the chance to join a co-sponsored effort to make that happen.
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