kotti / kotti_newsitem

News Item content type for Kotti

kotti_newsitem

News Item content type for Kotti.

This package provides:

• a NewsItem content type that is just a Document with a different default view,
• a news_listing view that provides an alternative default view for Document, for listing most recent published NewsItems on a full-page style display,
• a RecentNews widget for showing most recent published NewsItems in a slot, and
• an all_news view that shows ALL News Items in your site, chronologically ordered.

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Setup

To activate the kotti_newsitem add-on in your Kotti site, you need to add an entry to the kotti.configurators setting in your Paste Deploy config. If you don't have a kotti.configurators option, add one. The line in your [app:main] (or [app:kotti], depending on how you setup Fanstatic) section could then look like this:

kotti.configurators = kotti_newsitem.kotti_configure

Configuration

A good approach for managing news items on your site is to make a private container document for holding the actual news items. It is a good idea to organize them somehow, as by year:

news-items
    2013
        news-item-foo
        news-item-bar
        ...
    2014
        ...

This is primarily to help the content creator organize content, but it could also be used as a "manual" way of presenting news items if published. Display of most recent news items can be done either by selecting News Listing for the default view of a Document, or by using the recent news widget in a slot.

News Listing

For a full-page listing of most recent news items, add a Document, usually at the top-level of your site and titled "News", and set its default view to News Listing. Control the number of recent items shown with:

kotti_newsitem.num_news = 10

At the bottom of the list of news items, regardless of the number of recent news items listed, is a link to a page for All News, where all news items are shown.

Recent News Widget

If you want the RecentNews widget to show up in your site in a slot, either in place of a dedicated full-page news listing or to augment it, you have to add a line like this to enable the recent news widget:

kotti_newsitem.widget.slot = right

The for a list of available slots in a default Kotti site see the kotti.view.slots API docs

To change the default number of recent news items shown in the widget (5), add a line like this:

kotti_newsitem.widget.num_news = 10

Note

kotti_newsitem.num_news controls the number of items shown in a news listing; kotti_newsitem.widget.num_news does the same for the widget. For example, you might have the news listing set to show 10, but the widget only 2.

Development

Contributions to kotti_newsitem are highly welcome. Just clone its Github repository and submit your contributions as pull requests.

kotti_newsitem's Issues

Bad Kotti Browser pop-up trying to insert an image or link while creating a news item

When editing a news item for the first time (creating it), if I try to insert an image or a link and click on the browsing button, I get a pop-up with the title "Kotti Browser", but instead of the actual Kotti Browser that pop-up contains a form for creating yet another news item.

The Kotti Browser pop-up shows up nicely again when editing a previously created news item.

The same happens in the case of kotti_calendar events, so I'm not sure if this is a problem with these content types or some bug in Kotti itself.

[tested in a Debian Wheezy machine, within a virtualenv with Kotti 0.9.2, kotti_calendar 0.7, kotti_media 0.5.1, kotti_navigation 0.4a2, kotti_newsitem 0.2]