news content/page in modx??

How would you implement news into modx?

example
frontpage with news block - you have short summary of recent news posted, user can click "read more" to view the entire news article (this directs the user to the news page).
news page - contains list of news items, user can click on each news item to read the full article.

is there already a plugin to do this?

Ditto: http://ditto.modxcms.com/

thanks
I tired newspublisher
but dont know what im meant to do?
I inserted [[newspublisher]] I published a news, but dont know where it went either? or why its not showing hmm

Try this: http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Basic_Blog

This is basically what you want to do.

Newspublisher is to create documents.
Ditto will display your documents (your brief news item with the "read more" link to the document.)

The documents created by Newspublisher will show up in the document tree. You should tell it what parent under which you would like them to appear.

You will then tell Ditto to look in that dir (or dirs) for documents and display them.

You use the ditto templates to customize the look of your news display. (Use the link that Ryan left you to find out how to do that.)

Hope this helps.

For a completed example (live) you can look at http://www.nqnh.ca the news items on the left are using this exact method.

Cheers,

Jay

thats alot guys, will try this

[+date+] seems to format the date as "14-Dec-07 17:29" can I format to "December 14, 2007"

&dateFormat
Purpose

Format the [+date+] placeholder in human readable form
Options

Any PHP valid strftime option

Use the &dateFormat to structure the date using strftime() structure. This should work &dateFormat=`%B %e, %Y`

http://www.php.net/strftime

hi dev_cw

im confused, what would I insert in the html document to make it work?

In your Ditto Call you would add the &dateFormat parameter to your call as below:



Obviously you would have your other parameters in the call but this at least shows you how to do it. This will only work on the Ditto content.

Hope this helps.

Jay

As smashingred stated, just add it to the Ditto call and the [+date+] placeholder will follow the specified format.