[XenCustomize] News Publisher: Home Page, Portal & CMS 2.3.11

News Publisher 2.3.1 is now available! This update brings exciting new features, including a new Standout Card Grid display mode, a featured ribbon to highlight news stories, improved news thumbnail handling, and a more polished search box design. We’ve also enhanced the Expanded List display mode by adding a snippet of news content as a fallback description.

As always, we’d love your feedback! Please take a moment to rate the add-on on XenForo or on our site – your support is greatly appreciated!

New Features & Enhancements​

• Introduced a new 4th display mode among the available category display modes:
  • Display Mode - Standout Card Grid
• Added a featured ribbon to highlight featured news stories in the "Standout Card Grid" and "Card Grid" display modes.
• Improved News Thumbnail fallback options
  • Added support for external image URLs as a secondary fallback when no news thumbnail is uploaded.
  • Moved the default thumbnail image to the third fallback option, utilizing the default thumbnail set in style properties.
  • Updated various templates to ensure consistent display of images, thumbnails, and avatars across different views.
• Enhanced the "Expanded List" display mode by including a snippet of the news story content as a fallback description.
• Refined the search box design for a more polished look.

Changes​

• Updated the default News Thumbnail (Landscape) image.
• Updated the default News Thumbnail (Square) image.

Screenshots and details​

• News Publisher: Display Mode - Standout Card Grid
• News Publisher: Featured Ribbon
• News Publisher: Improved News Thumbnail Fallback Options
• News Publisher: Snippet as Fallback Description
• News Publisher: Search Box Design Polished

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We're pleased to announce that the News Publisher for XenForo 2.2 is officially released!

Understanding that many of you are still using XF 2.2, we've created a dedicated version to bring you the same excellent features, minus the XF 2.3-specific enhancements.

And great news: News Publisher 2.2.0 is upgradeable to News Publisher 2.3.0 once you upgrade your XenForo to 2.3!

Here are the two versions now available:

• News Publisher 2.2.0: Compatible with XenForo 2.2
• News Publisher 2.3.0: Compatible with XenForo 2.3

Thank you for your ongoing support and feedback!

First, thanks for the great response we have received since the release!

As we receive feedback, we understand that many of you are still using XenForo 2.2 and may not plan to upgrade to 2.3 soon but are interested in using the News Publisher. Therefore, we have decided to develop a separate XF 2.2 compatible version with all the same features, excluding those introduced in XF 2.3, such as featured content, trending news, etc. We’re happy to say it’s in development and will let you know as soon as it’s ready.

Additionally, we've bumped the XF 2.3 compatible version from 1.0.0 to 2.3.0. The XF 2.2 compatible version will be labeled as 2.2.0.