NSPro Overview

GK4 is new generation of our extensions based on the GNU General Public License.

Basing on experiences gathered, we created probably the best tool to present articles for Joomla! Huge amount of options and possibilities of formatting causes News Show Pro GK4 is a complex tool in making www pages content attractive. News Show Pro is appropriate while preparing simple structures with an individual article, the same as, complex arrangements including few articles and a list of links.

In comparison with NSP GK1, GK4 carries in changes in three aspects:

• Support for K2 component
• Module management options in administrative panel totally converted
• Code generated by module on the site cleaned and improved

Support for K2 component allows the user to choose between using a standard Joomal! article manager and K2 component which offers more interesting possibilities.

Thanks to converting module management options, its support is more convenient and easier. Except grouping options in subject groups, a few simple solutions were added which makes module support clean and neat.

Cleaned module code looks friendlier for users whose browsers have JavaScript off. Thanks to new technologies use, module and its content should be indexed better by the Internet search engines.

Such changes were implemented:

• Support for avatars authors from gravatar.com service
• Editorial content of informative part of an article
• Two blocks for content connected with informative part of an article
• Improvements in the field of specifying word/symbol limit in article elements
• More types of caching articles and links

Key Features

• Joomla 1.5 native.
• Content control display from any section, category or article ID's.
• Support for K2 component
• Left, right or bottom selection position of list with links.
• Horizontal and vertical news presentation (columns and rows configuration).
• Scalable size of the module
• Show text, image, author, avatar, date, section/category name and button "read more" option, with order customization.
• Support for avatars from Gravatar.com
• Customizable article information
• News amount sorted by date, order, frontpage/featured order, random or hits.
• Use of multiple modules on the same page with unique ID configuration.
• Automatic generation of unique ID
• Pagination for articles and lists with links
• New types of pagination
• Different language translation support included.
• Built-in thumbnail generator
• On/Off front page articles display in modules.
• Clean (X)HTML in content.
• Easy and friendly back-end administration.
• SEF URLs.
• Used Javascript Framework: Mootools 1.12.
• Fully compatible: Firefox, IE7+, Opera 9.5, Safari, Netscape, Google Chrome, Camino, Flock 0.7+.

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Changelist

• Fixed problem with references to option "clean plugins code"

• Fixed problem with references to function parsePlugins

• Small fix for columns width calculations

• Fixed problem with bottom pagination counter (problem with updating values)
• Fixed problem with autoanimation when top interface was disabled or only counter/pagination were enabled

• Fixed problem with columns in IE7.

• Fixed problem with creating thumbnails from PNG images (background color and transparency).

• Fixed problem with showing articles when amout of articles is lower than amount of columns and rows.

Roadmap

• selecting K2 articles by tags
• showing user rating for Joomla! and K2 articles
• showing amount of comments from the JComments component for Joomla! articles
• showing random articles from specified period of time
• option to set timezone, because sometimes somebody has a problem with it.
• option to set autosize (with keeping aspect ratio) for thumbnails when one parameter (width or height) is set.
• option to select title or title_alias as a article header
• option to adjust font size from administration panel (controlled by values in percents).
• more built-in styles for the module.
• built-in support for Photoslide GK4.
• option to select MooTools 1.12 or 1.2.4 engine.js script.