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Taxonews

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fgm - October 18, 2005 - 13:07
Taxonews

A module to generate blocks containing titles of node matching terms in a taxonomy vocabulary, as links to the nodes themselves, with automatic content expiration based on publishing date.

Features

Module has settings for

  • Node lifetime; it defines as many blocks as there are terms in the vocabularies updated within that lifetime.
  • The vocabularies used for automatic block creation.
  • Inclusion of the module name in the block list, in order to group block names (True by default)
  • Inclusion of blocks matching no content from the block list (True by default)

The blocks are themeable, so the list of titles can be replaced by other display choices on a per-block basis, like Drupal teasers instead of just titles, by overriding the theme_taxonews_block_view function in a theme.

News

  • After months in RC and only one issue found and fixed, the production release for the Drupal 6 branch is planned for 2009-01-01
  • 2008-12-30 Czech translation added, by mysak
  • 2008-06-11 First dev version for the under-development Drupal 7 core (for devs wishing to play with unstable core and contrib only)
  • 2008-06-09 Release candidate for the Drupal 6 branch

Impact on drupal / Dependencies

The module does not modify the default 4.6→6.x database structure on its own. It only uses existing content and a few variables. The 6.x branch includes an uninstall feature to remove these variables.

The module needs taxonomy.module (core) to be enabled. Some features will only be available if statistics.module (core) is enabled.

Lifecycle and support

See taxonews lifecycle page off-site. In addition to community support here on drupal.org, Professional support is available from OSInet for this module.

Contributing / documentation

The module is now available directly on Drupal.org: the wiki no longer contains code, only documentation. See below.

For developers wishing to submit patches to the module, please refer to the OSInet coding standards document.

Releases

Official releasesDateSizeLinksStatus
6.x-1.0-rc2008-Jun-0816.26 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 6.xThis is currently the recommended release for 6.x.
5.x-1.1-rc2008-Jun-0814.3 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 5.xThis is currently the recommended release for 5.x.
4.7.x-1.02007-Jun-1112.26 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 4.7.xThis is currently the recommended release for 4.7.x.
Development snapshotsDateSizeLinksStatus
7.x-1.x-dev2008-Jun-1315.88 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.
6.x-1.x-dev2008-Dec-3017.84 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.
5.x-1.x-dev2008-Jun-1615.3 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.


 
 

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