axllent/silverstripe-news

News module for SilverStripe 3

News module for SilverStripe 3

A module to add a news page (like a blog) for SilverStripe 3. It uses DataObjects for individual news articles, mapping each one to an individual URL using $url_handlers., _(*1)

Features

• DataObjects instead of SiteTree for news articles (much neater than adding every article into SiteTree)
• Controller $url_handlers to provide each article its own page /<newspage>/article/<article-name>-<id>/ (auto-generated)
• Individual article date & time - will not show if in the future allowing schedules posts
• Custom Breadcrumbs() function to add articles to breadcrumbs
• RSS feed
• Pagination (see below)

Requirements

• SilverStripe >=3.1

Pagination

By default the articles get paginated per 10 articles. You can change this (for instance) in your mysite/_config/config.yml, _(*2)

NewsPage:
  articles_per_page: 10