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MiniNEWS: A Lightweight News Listing Snippet for Evolution CMS
An extras overview of MiniNEWS, a compact alternative to heavier listing tools for outputting small news blocks with optional TV support.
MiniNEWS was created as a lighter alternative for projects that wanted a simple news listing snippet without the overhead of larger components.
Why it existed
The original motivation was straightforward: Ditto felt too heavy for some use cases, especially when multiple listings appeared on the same page. MiniNEWS aimed to keep the query count low and the setup small.
Main capabilities mentioned in the original post
- support for multiple parent IDs
- optional TV output
- field-level selection to reduce DB load
- lightweight date formatting
- sorting and result limits
Example call
[!MiniNEWS? &id=`1` &tpl=`MiniNEWS_tpl`!]This kind of snippet filled an important niche in early Evolution CMS work: sometimes the right tool is not the most feature-rich one, but the one that solves a narrow listing problem with the least moving parts.
Source: original community announcement. The original MiniNEWS post is still the best public reference for the snippet's lightweight listing approach.
ManagerManager 0.4: A New Release for Backend Workflow Tweaks
A short extras release note for ManagerManager 0.4 and the period when its widget-based manager customization became a standard part of many Evolution CMS projects.
Forms Module: A Visual Form Generator for Evolution CMS
An extras-style overview of an older forms generator module that let teams build and store manager-driven forms without hand-coding every field.