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This Drupal 8 module allows users to place a block on their page which displays the https://github.com/byuweb/byu-news-components.
You can see a demonstration of this module on the BYU homepage: https://www.byu.edu/academics

Next Updates to This Module

We'd like to add the category option so there can be multiple news blocks and each could have a configuration option for which category to use and how many news articles to list.

Installation, Use & Configuration

Installation

  1. Clone or download this repo into your project (If you download it, make sure to remove '-master' from the module folder name)
  2. Install the module on your Drupal site
  3. Place the BYU News block on your page

Configuration (Optional)

The BYU News web component looks something like https://github.com/byuweb/byu-news-components) for more information:

<byu-news categories="all" tags="all" max-date="2017-07-01" min-date="2017-04-01" story-limit="3"></byu-news>

This module uses variables to define each of the attributes listed above. The variables are:

  • defined in [BYU_NEWS Root]/byu_news.module
  • initialized in[BYU_NEWS Root]/src/Plugin/Block/ByuNewsBlock.php
  • and implemented in [BYU_NEWS Root]/templates/byu-news.html.twig

Default values are:

  • categories: 2975
  • tags: all
  • min-date: today
  • max-date: 1 month prior
  • story-limit: 3
Supporting organizations: 
Brigham Young University

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