Article Lists: "TACC: Latest Articles" Plugin

[wesleyboar]

Migrated to Jira TUP-706.

Dependencies

• Read More Styles #96
• "See All" / "See More" Link - Styles #76
• Article Lists Styles #93

Goal

Create "TACC: Latest Articles" plugin that can support these blog article listings:

• News (Article Lists: News & Allocations - via News Plugin #132)
• Allocations (Article Lists: News & Allocations - via News Plugin #132)
• Events (Article Lists: Events - via News Plugin #140)

Requirements

Features (beyond Blog plugin)

1. "Read more" feature (Read More Styles #96) to truncate, but not allow reveal, of excess description.
2. "See all" link ("See All" / "See More" Link - Styles #76) to open a full article listing for specific news types.

Styles

1. "thumbnail & type & date & title & abstract (as grid item)"*
2. "thumbnail & type & date & title & abstract (as list item)"*
3. "thumbnail & title & dates (as grid item)"

* These may or may not get a byline. They will be added to #95, and might be propagated (Matt is not sure, yet).

Tags

1. featured
2. homepage

Data

1. plugin template (ui style): (unknown) — ⚠︎ see "Direction" → "UI Styles"
2. articles (amount to show): (integer)
3. [custom] title: (string)
4. [custom] description: (string)
5. source: (type a.k.a app. config)
6. filter by category: (category list) — ⓘ is not limited to overlap (like Blog's plugin)
7. filter by tag: (tag list) — ⓘ is not limited to overlap (like Blog's plugin)
8. [custom] exclude by tag: (tag list) — ⓘ is not limited to overlap
9. [custom] number of articles per column: (integer)
10. [custom] must show sort/filter bar: False

Direction

Feature

• Use Blog plugin.
  • Extend the "Blog: Latest Blog Articles" plugin.
  • Use default "News" Blog Type (i.e. App. Config).

Styles

How to manage UI style (CSS class based on app_config) is unclear. Ideally, in post_list.html, if app_config is available, change class based on its value. Alternatively, use "Layout ▸ TEMPLATE PREFIX" option to select alternative djangocms_blog/ directory (this is not a DRY solution). Affects: #132, and #140.

Reference

• Frontera Redesign
  • home page news
  • science page news
  • news page news (grid)
  • news page news (list)
  • home page allocations
  • allocations page
  • home page events
  • events page events
• User Guide - Blog/News - Overview

[wesleyboar]

Migrated to Jira TUP-706.