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heimrichhannot/contao-news-bundle
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This module contains enhancements for the contao news entity.

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Contao News Bundle
==================

[](#contao-news-bundle)

> This bundle is deprecated! Don't use is anymore. Version 4 is intended to removed feature one by one. New minor versions will remove features, so stick to bugfix versions if you need to use version 4.
>
> - Version 4.1: Removed social stats ([\#3](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-news-bundle/pull/3))
> - Version 4.0: Removed codefog/tags-bundle support

This module contains enhancements for the contao news entity. It works with Contao 4 (and higher).

Replacements:
-------------

[](#replacements)

- List-/Readersupport: [Contao News List Reader Bundle](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-news-list-reader-bundle)
- Social stats: [Social Stats Bundle](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-social-stats-bundle)

Features
--------

[](#features)

- [List Bundle](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-list-bundle) and [Reader Bundle](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-reader-bundle) support through [Contao News List Reader Bundle](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-news-list-reader-bundle)
- news navigation
- custom palettes for news archives

### News lists

[](#news-lists)

- prevent duplicate content for news lists with multiple pages by setting `` an all pages except first and adding `` and/or `` of next or prev page exists (See: [Indicate paginated content ](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663744?hl=en))
- define "news lists" for filtering the news to be displayed in the ordinary NewsList module (new back end entity)

### Info box

[](#info-box)

An info box is a widget that can be rendered within a news article. The default info box comes with headline, text (wysiwyg), hyperlink and hyperlink text fields. Use `##news_info_box##` within your news content elements / details (tl\_content) to render the box content.

### News navigation

[](#news-navigation)

Navigate between news articles. You can go to the next (newer) or the previous (older) article direct from a news article. Respect filters set by the user.

Technical instructions
----------------------

[](#technical-instructions)

### News navigation

[](#news-navigation-1)

To activate news navigation, you need to create a `newsnavigation` module and configure it with a `newslist` module. And you need to add set the `newsnavigation` module in the `newsreader` module. Don't add the module to an article, as this won't work, instead a template variable with the navigation is added to the news article template.

### Modules

[](#modules)

NameDescriptionnewsnavigationCreate the news navigation. Respect filters set by the `newslist_filter` module. To be used in combination with `newslist` module and `newsreader` module.### Insert Tags

[](#insert-tags)

NameDescriptionArgumentsExamplenews\_listprints the link to a certain news listid or alias of a news list{{news\_list::1}}news\_list\_urlprints the url to a certain news listid or alias of a news list{{news\_list\_url::1}}news\_list\_titleprints the title of a certain news listid or alias of a news list{{news\_list\_title::1}}More
----

[](#more)

### Extension

[](#extension)

[Contao News Leisure Bundle](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-news-leisure-bundle) - Add Leisure tipps to news

###  Health Score

39

—

LowBetter than 85% of packages

Maintenance27

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity84

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~29 days

Recently: every ~57 days

Total

81

Last Release

746d ago

Major Versions

1.5.2 → 2.4.42018-12-06

1.5.4 → v2.x-dev2018-12-06

1.5.6 → 3.0.0-beta52018-12-18

1.6.1 → 4.0.02022-05-09

1.8.0 → 4.1.22023-09-06

PHP version history (5 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.6.0

3.0.0-betaPHP ^7.1

4.0.0PHP ^7.1 || ^8.0

1.7.0PHP ^7.0 || ^8.0

1.10.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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