Mini Frontpage Pro

Mini Frontpage Pro is the extended version of Mini Frontpage module, an advanced news display module for Joomla. It displays the joomla articles from selected categories with date, thumbnail, excerpt in various design and layout. It’s simple and easy to use. It also comes with many parameters to configure, to help you to create a good looking news block for your Joomla website quickly.

Features

  • Multiple item support, you can publish multiple Minifrontpage Pro modules in the same page
  • Responsive Design, the module will look good in any device Flexible parameters to suit your needs, from basic parameters such article category source, show hide introtext with trim function, articles filter etc, to theme based parameters such as number of column, custom date format, thumbnail posistion etc
  • Theme skin, each theme may comes with some skins for alternate style. If you know css, you can make your own theme skin and upload it to Minifrontpage Pro skin folder
  • CSS adjustment. 
If you just need to make small style modification, there’s also a css adjustment field to add css override/modification without touching the physical file.
  • Generate thumbnail from external website / source
  • Time ago date format
  • Youtube as item background (Depends on Theme)
  • Joomla 4 ready
  • etc

Standard Version vs Pro

Mini Frontpage
Mini Frontpage
Mini Frontpage Pro
Mini Frontpage Pro
Theme 3 9
All Basic Mini Frontpage Functions and Theme Yes Yes
K2 Version No Yes
Custom Fields Support No Yes
Generate thumbnail from external website / source No Yes
Youtube as item background (Depends on Theme) No Yes
Time ago date format No Yes
Time ago date format No Yes
Webp Support No Yes
Other Pro features and functions No Yes
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License

Mini Frontpage Pro is released under the GNU/GPLv2 or Later licensing model that also means you can install it on multiple websites without any restrictions. By single purchasing this module it means you purchase the download access + update to this module for 6 months (180 days), and premium support for 1(one) website only

Snippets

Get 'Ready to Use' Minifrontpage CSS Code / Snippet (Typography, Color, etc) from this page

Changelog

Legend [+] = Added [-] = Fixed [*] = Changed [^] = Moved [x] = Deleted
 Version 2.3.0 - 25-05-23
- Fixed thumbnail check issue
- Added fulltext for finding image in article body

Version 2.2.2 - 20-12-22
- Fixed language strings that accidentally got deleted
- Updated documentation file

Version 2.2.1 - 15-12-22
- Fixed typo in Filtered by Article's ID function

Version 2.2.0 - 10-11-22
+ Added WebP Support
+ Added Filtered by Article's ID, include or exclude

Version 2.1.0 - 17-09-22
+ Added Featured Article Ordering option

Version 2.0.2 - 08-09-22
- Fixed external image support
- Fixed custom default thumbnail support

Version 2.0.1 - 03-07-22
- Fixed minor fileFilter issue on xml files

Version 2.0.0 - 01-07-22
* Changed codebase for Joomla 4 version. Now Minifrontpage Pro for Joomla 3 and 4 use the same installation file (Unified version)
- Infinity Theme now supports Joomla 4
+ Added New Article orderings : Featured first to make Featured Article is sticky, Backend ordering and Finish Publishing
- Fixed issue when image path is not exist

Version 1.5.0 - 20-04-21
+ Added 3 Sub Layout for Collage theme
+ Added Image as background or thumbnail for both of Hero item and non hero item in the Collage theme
- Fixed youtube backround issue for all themes when no image available in the article
- Other bugfixes and improvements

Version 1.4.1 - 09-04-21
- Thumbnail is now updated/re-generated everytime article is updated

Version 1.4.0 - 04-03-21
+ Added new Infinity theme, with Ajax and Infinity Scroll feature (available for Joomla 3.x and K2 version only. Joomla 4.x version is not yet supported due to some unresolved issues in Joomla 4.x Beta)
+ Added Show Tags
+ Added Title and Popularity (by Hits) ordering 
+ Added Ordering direction option
+ Added item as background option to default theme
- Fixed image not found when trying to generate thumbnail, when wrong image url inserted
- Fixed same background image issue when multiple Collage themes with the same layout are published
- Updated some deprecated jQuery code
- Fixed some bugs on default template
- Fixed carousel themes (also Carousel Big and XT) issue on tablet (iPad)

Version 1.3.0 - 18-09-20
+ Added IE 11 support for carousel based themes
+ Added Tag Filtering 
+ Added custom time period input
+ Filter by Publish date now will show publish date instead of created date
- Fixed custom default thumbnail file when *.png file is used

Version 1.2.2 (K2 Version Only) - 10-08-20
- Fixed issues with item without K2 extrafield when extrafield is enabled

Version 1.2.1 - 20-07-20
- Fixed some css issues

Version 1.2.0 - 20-07-20
+ Added Custom Fields support
- Fixed Youtube Background issue for some themes
+ Added static file versioning for better update safe
- Filter by modified date now will show modified date instead of created date
- Fixed issue with image with spacing in its filename when image is added using wysiwyg editor
- Fixed flicker load issue with carousels themes
- Fixed custom default thumb for external image
- Fixed untranslated 'All' text for portfolio theme
- Other bugfixes and improvements

Version 1.1.1 (and 1.1.2 for K2 version) - 20-03-2020
- Fixed undefined variable at college theme when hiding the date

Version 1.1.1 (K2 version) - 11-03-2020
+ Added All Videos Plugin Support to K2 version for Youtube Background function in some themes (The Joomla Article version  already support it)

Version 1.1.0 - 06-03-2020
+ Added more advance thumbnail settings (image quality setting and retina setting)
+ K2 extrafield improvement settings
+ Adding back setting for Other Articles block header text for default theme
- Fix masonry and Youtube background for Joomla 4

Version 1.0.1 - 07-02-2020
+ Added K2 Version
- Changed time range field from using 'text input' into 'select' in the module's backend

Version 1.0.0 - 31-01-2020
+ Initial Upload           

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  • Created at 30 Jan 2020
  • Updated at 25 May 2023
  • File Size 2.29 MB
  • 25170 Hits
  • Supported Platform Joomla 3.7+ - 4.1+