Pro_News 3.2.1 is available.

Included are the Featured Content Slider which can be used to display a large number of pictures in a small space, as a slideshow alternative or both, and a Coppermine hack to allow Batch Upload without resorting to ftp. Plus a few small improvements, details on download page.    mer ...

A screen shot of the final version of the (future) Featured Content Slider is on the left, but you can test out a live version in the demo below. (Click read more to view.) This Slider was created by simply selecting a Photo Album, as previously, and using a brand new template. No changes to the Submit Article user interface at all. Now, instead of the Photo Album images appearing as separate images on the page as before, they appear in a single Slider. No formating or anything else special for the submitter to do!    mer ...

As any of you who've been following will know, I wanted to add a "Featured Content" like display into Pro_News. (If you don't know what I mean by Featured Content, then do a search on DragonflyCMS for the post by greenday2k, or take a look at the original developers Dynamic Drive.)

Anyway, I've got it working, see screen capture alongside. Note this is ENTIRELY done in Pro_News template, no change to Pro_News code at all. A strong vindication as to the power of Pro_News templates!    mer ...

Just to let everyone know that the latest and best Pro_News available is now ready, initially just for Sponsors, but it will be released to Registered Members shortly, and then everyone.

Lots and lots of small but useful enhancements, continuing the push to make Pro_News easier to deploy and manage.

Update: Now available to all. Enjoy! And please think about the Donation ...

Update: If you downloaded as a Sponsor before 17 Oct 09, please read this. 1 file needs to be updated. Sorry!    mer ...

Just to let everyone know that the latest and greatest Pro_News is now available, initially just for Sponsors, but now for all Registered Members

A lot of small but useful enhancements mostly, the sort of thing which makes building and running the site easier, even if you can't actually put your finger on exactly what changed. Most every annoyance I found when building Pro_News centric websites have been addressed, all minor though I must say, along with all the enhancements requested.

Plus the Submit Article screen has been made much more approachable.    mer ...

Please update to the latest release. v3.0.0.1 fixes an issue with display on the Home page if multiple Sections are used with differing templates. Unfortunately an error crept into to the 3.0 release just before release, when adding "No Article" error messages for Admins. The new release totally changes and improves the method used to display multiple templates on the same page, to prevent the display issues.    mer ...

This is to announce a new forum dedicated to a group of members who have gone out of their way to help bring Pro_News to the community. Either by extensive testing, writing code, translating, or donating funds to help me develop Pro_News. In many cases these members have done most or all of the above.

This new forum is my way of saying thanks to these individuals. In the forum I'll be providing some snippets on how I use Pro_News, and few tricks to get the very best out of a Pro_News based website.    mer ...

Pro_News 3.0.0.0, which was going to be called 2.3.0.7, has been released. You can find it in downloads here. Downloads are restricted to registered members initially, until we can be confident there are no big issues. Expect it to be widely available in just a few days.    mer ...

Article originally posted by gallowglas on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 (09:40:25) as a forum post

Hi ...

I made this mod some time ago, but I forgot about it. (thanks Robert for reminding me)
I modified Newsletter_Pro V3.4.5 to work with DF9.2.x and Pro_News 2.3.x (should work with older versions, but only tested with 2.3.0.5)    mer ...

The next release of Pro_News - version 2.3 - is out for what may well be its final test before release.

As well as all the planned features, a number of new tweaks and improvements have be added to improve the overall usability of Pro_News. Things Admins will like, e.g. if there are no articles to display in a Section/Category it will now tell you, as Admin, which Section and which Category. And you can go directly to any Section or Category from the Admin > Pro_News > Category screen without having to redisplay from the Home or Pro_News page. Plus many others.

Bigger enhancements are correctly sized mini "icon" displays in Headlines, support for default images per Section to avoid the blank "No image" displays, new table-free Headline templates for Headlines - which should improve the display particularly for those CSS-challenged browsers like IE.

There will be a couple of minor upgrade steps needed for those of you using Headlines to generate the new icon images, but it had to be changed/improved.