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Category: Latest News Enhanced

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Latest News Enhanced
Features FreeGo free ProGo pro
  better for showing items in a simple way tons of options to apply animations, complex layouts, additional data and menu item views
choose between Joomla articles or K2 items Yes Yes
add data sources other than articles or K2 items (like newsfeeds) No Yes
show related items only Yes Yes
related to contact
related to Community Builder user profile
preview unauthorized items No Yes
show X items starting at position Y Yes Yes
filter items by category, tags, keywords, authors, dates (including custom fields), Hot custom fields Yes Yes
order by article date, article title, article popularity, category, author or randomly Yes Yes
Hot replace title and/or text with custom field data (Joomla 3.7+) No Yes
layout styles Original (default)
Original (Modern)		 Original (default)
Original (Modern)
Full Width
Overlap
+ additional downloads
color schemes 5 unlimited
leading items No Yes
show elements image from content,
calendar		 image from content,
calendar,
image from intro, full or K2 image,
author, K2 avatar,
Hot Joomla 3.7 custom fields of type media or calendar,
Hot K2 extra field of type image or date,
Hot in-house custom field of type SYW Icon,
Hot third-party custom fields of type video
limit the image search to the intro text No Yes
link to item
item in modal window		 item,
item in modal window,
inline items,
item links A, B or C,
Hot Joomla 3.7 custom field of type url,
Hot K2 extra field of type link
show categories first, last and before title positions first, last, before title and over picture positions
categories links  Joomla contact category view Joomla contact category view
extension's blog view
GIF, JPG, PNG, WebP and Avif image support Yes Yes
create high-definition images for devices with high pixel ratio (like retina screens) No Yes
lazy load images No Yes
use calendar style Original (default) Original (default)
Simple Sided
Complex Sided
Rainbow
+ additional downloads
limit or show whole text with or without html formatting Yes Yes
show item information

 5 possible fields among
hits
rating
author
date
time
category
keywords
read more		 9 possible fields (unlimited in Joomla 3.8+ !) among 
hits
rating
author
date
time
category
keywords
tags
selected tags
links A, B and/or C
read more
social media share
JComments, K2 comments count
Hot + K2 extra fields
Hot + Joomla 3.7+ custom fields
Hot + fields available through additional plugins
Hot + add your own
information icons Default icons only Icon picker
override information layouts No Yes
restrict access to information No Yes
social media shares No Facebook
LinkedIn
Mix
Pinterest
Telegram
Twitter
WhatsApp
Hot add your own
pagination Yes Yes
+ pagination at module title level
filter content: categories / tags / authors / period / Hot custom fields No Yes
in blog views
animations No Yes
Scroll
Cover
Fade
+ additional downloads
pictures and header caching Yes Yes
Hot plugin Related News in Article No Yes
Hot Extend the module through plugins No Yes
add your own information types and data sources
(like Newsfeeds)
Hot Create blog views (menu item instances) with infinite-like scrolling No Yes
Hot Create list views (menu item instances) for a table-like layout No Yes
Search and category, tag, author index in blog views No Yes
Bootstrap compatible Bootstrap compatibility 2, 3, 4 and 5 2, 3, 4 and 5
updates Yes Yes
report issues Yes Yes
forum support read-only
no post
unless you own a valid basic membership		 read/post
email support No
unless you own a valid basic membership		 Yes
Features Go free Go pro

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