Announcing
Ditto: the nimbler, faster, better-named and even more flexible offspring of NewsListing.
The fact is, Newslisting is useful for much more than summarizing and building archives of news articles. Coupled with the fact that a cornerstone MODx philosophy focuses on flexibility, and "News" seemed to syntactically restrictive. And boring.
Blogs... PodCasts... Press Release archives... File Download repositories... FAQs... Executive Bio listings...
Ditto now takes advantage of an external class, language files to work with multi-language installs, and uses templates extensively for the ultimate in output formatting flexibility and control. And while it has more than 40 configurable parameters in it’s current implementation, you only need [[Ditto]] for great results (although telling it explicitly where to start probably wouldn’t hurt
).
Amongst the many cool things under Ditto’s able and refined domain:
- &mode parameter can disable sanity checks on variables and increase speed for production sites.
- JSON format for AJAX applications
- Access individual posts in templates via [+item[ # ]+] placeholders (replacing ’ # ’ with actual integers).
- Stop guessing with non-abbreviated parameter names in CamelCase convention.
- Updated documentation and full parameter and placeholder lists.
- xHTML Strict month-based archive output which uses templates for formatting.
- Extensive sorting and filtering based on TVs
- And the obligatory, "much, much more..."
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And so many different uses (as I said earlier, did a company directory with it !). The question is : when will Ditto make coffee 
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MODX Staff
