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Magento News Module: Display News on Your Website for Viewers

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magento newsThe Magento News Module by Commerce lab is a free module which allows you to display fully-fledged news on your website.

The module has a number of flexible tuning options including the option to create categories, add comments to each news item, add pictures to news and a lot more.

What’s more, this extension can be used as a blog on your own website. The Magento News Extension will help you make your store more interactive and will keep visitors cognizant of the latest business updates, developments and achievments.

An additional value to the extension is integration with social networks like Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, you can even upgrade the module to the Great News Module, an upgraded version which features more flexibility and customization possibilities.

News Magento Extension Key Features:

  • The ability to create news categories and their sub-categories
  • The ability to bind each category to a particular store
  • Structural separation of news for a short and full description
  • The possibility to set a period of news publication (Publish From: Date, Hours, and Minutes; Publish until: Date, Hours and Minutes)
  • The possibility to set data on publishing (date/time/category)
  • The ability to add photos for each news article – both to the short and full description
  • The ability to set META-data for the news (keywords, description)
  • The possibility to leave comments on the news page
  • The ability to set access parameters to leave comments
  • The option of approving/blocking comments
  • Ajax pager for easy switching between comments
  • Integration with social networks: Google+, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
  • Print version for every news for easy opportunity to print it out
  • RSS-feed for each news category
  • Usage of Magento WYSYWIG-editor for simple news editing
  • The ability to export News into CSV file
  • Possible upgrade to Great News Extension
  • Easy installation
  • Open source
  • Compatibility with the latest versions of Magento.
  • The ability to insert news as block with parameters in WYSYWIG-editor, such as {{block type=”clnews/news” template=”clnews/list.phtml” category=”CATEGORY_URL_KEY” itemslimit=”NUMBER_OF_ITEMS_TO_DISPLAY”}}

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