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News module for silverstripe

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News Module
===========

[](#news-module)

Note: News module for SilverStripe 2.4 is available on the ss24 branch!

Maintainer Contact
------------------

[](#maintainer-contact)

Marcus Nyeholt

<marcus (at) silverstripe (dot) com (dot) au>

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

SilverStripe 3.0.x

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

The News module provides a straightforward method for creating and publishing news articles on a website. In some respects it is similar to the Blog module, however news articles are meant to be focused more around press release style content - this means a News Article can be represented by normal Content, a hosted file (eg a PDF) or a completely remote article on a separate website. Additionally, News Articles allow authors to specify a separate Summary from the main content, useful for aggregating content references on your site, and allows authors to attach a thumbnail for an article.

News Holders can be configured to automatically file contained articles into a date based hierarchy, generating a hierarchy for archive purposes.

Unlike the Blog module, the News Module does not support widgets at all, and does not come with Comments enabled by default. While these things could be added on by yourself, it is not core to the functionality of the module.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Extract to the "news" directory in your SilverStripe folder, and run dev/build. You should now have a "News Holder" page type, and News Item page types to be created beneath the news holders.

The News module also provides functionality to automatically file articles beneath a hierarchy ordered by Year, Month and day. This will then automatically provide an "archive" type functionality for news articles. To enable this, select the checkbox for "Automatically file contained articles" on the News Holder.

Known issues
------------

[](#known-issues)

When creating articles with the automatic filing functionality, and its eventual parent location isn't visible, the article will initially appear in the root of the site tree, even though it has been created underneath the correct location. Refreshing the tree fixes this problem.

Pagination will not work when using the SubSections loop when the holder contains child holder pages because the Pagination details will be separate for each child holder page. Use the TotalChildArticles loop instead of SubSections to get around this.

```

					See older articles

					See newer articles

						$PageNum

					$PageNum

```

###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance7

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95% 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 ~89 days

Recently: every ~112 days

Total

6

Last Release

3479d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/25cb1c56a7ab949d1e6b28a2a04862ce1cffe1799a291e1797f8dfd33cd83716?d=identicon)[nyeholt](/maintainers/nyeholt)

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Top Contributors

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