General Features
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Unlimited number of Articles per category
- Article-modifiers – new, hot, pop, editor’s pick, site lead story, category lead story
- Configurable output options – sorting, pagination
- Configurable Articles priority
- Article Start and Archivation dates – allows to schedule articles display on the Front End
- Articles reviews
- Articles rating/voting system
- Suggest category form on the front end
- Unlimited number of Article Custom Fields
- Different type of custom fields – text, drop-down, checkboxes etc.
- Configurable Search Settings – relevance, fields to search in etc.
- Configurable Output Settings – sorting, pagination, priorities etc.
- Configurable E-mail Settings – which notifications to send and to/from whom
Front End User Experience
Accurate categorization of topics allows you to display news in categories, such as Politics, Sports or Business, so that your visitors can read the news that interest them the most.
Breaking news can be displayed at a glance, ensuring that your readers will not miss it. In-newz lets you display selected articles as lead stories for a particular category or the entire web site. In-newz also allows your users to interact directly with the news that they are reading by rating articles, reviewing them, or even discussing them on the Discussion Forum with the help of In-bulletin.
Front End Features
- Sortable Articles listings with adjustable pagination
- Friendly URLs - perfectly spiderable, meaningful URLs with no query string; configurable category and items names in the URL*
- Breadcrumbs (category path) display on every page
- Quick search for articles
- Advanced search for articles
- Site lead story display on the home page
- Category lead stories display on each category page
Administrative Experience
When it comes to breaking news, timing is everything. The administrative tools of In-newz helps you to stay ahead of the game. Just like the other modules, In-newz is managed through the centralized Administrative Console. The Content Management feature allows for easy article creation in a highly visual environment and without any knowledge of programming or HTML coding. Article management by designated leads, editor’s picks and new articles ensures that your web site users receive the latest news and updates. You can even schedule articles to appear and expire on certain dates. Automatic archiving keeps your web site free of old news.
Administrative Console Features
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Catalog view – displays articles by category
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Advanced view – displays all the articles regardless of the category in one grid
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Reviews management – display all reviews in single section, allowing to edit and approve or deny it
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Graphical toolbars on every page
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Cut/Copy/Paste functions for managing articles and categories
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Approve/Deny available from the toolbar
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Keyword-searchable data-grids (Catalog, Advanced View)
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Customizable View Options (pagination, sorting, display by link status etc.)
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Adjustable Output settings (sorting, pagination, priorities)
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Customizable Search settings – allows to specify fields for searching, relative weight of each field in calculating relevance etc.
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Customizable E-mail settings – allows to specify the from/to addresses for all automatic e-mails such as article added, article modified etc.
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Custom fields management – add/edit/delete unlimited custom fields, specify custom field types, labels etc.
* Requires Apache web-server with mod_rewrite module enabled