A Refinery CMS plugin for managing and displaying news posts on websites.
Refinery CMS News is a plugin for Refinery CMS that adds news publishing functionality to websites. It allows website administrators to create, manage, and display news articles through a familiar CMS interface, solving the need for structured news content management without custom development.
Refinery CMS users and developers who need to add news/blog functionality to their websites, particularly those managing content-heavy sites like corporate websites, organizations, or publications.
Developers choose Refinery CMS News because it integrates seamlessly with Refinery CMS, provides out-of-the-box news functionality with standard features, and offers customization options while maintaining the CMS's elegant admin interface and developer experience.
News Plugin for Refinery CMS
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Integrates directly into Refinery CMS's admin interface, allowing news management without a separate tool, as evidenced by the plugin's ability to add news sections through the CMS.
Provides automatic RSS feed generation for news content, with simple implementation using auto_discovery_link_tag in the layout, as shown in the README.
Allows easy overriding of front-end templates via rake commands (e.g., rake refinery:override view=refinery/news/items/*), enabling design matching without core modifications.
Includes code examples and partials to display recent news feeds on homepage, with steps to set @items and render the recent_posts partial, enhancing site cohesion.
Only works with Refinery CMS, making it useless for projects on other platforms and creating vendor lock-in for news functionality.
Changing items per page requires writing a controller decorator with custom pagination code, as detailed in the README, which adds complexity and potential for errors.
Focuses on basic news functionality; lacks out-of-the-box features like social sharing, multi-author support, or advanced search, requiring additional development.