News templates

Files

Aragorn overrides four of the news plugin's template files:

File	Covers
templates/news/news_template.php	Front listing, category listing, related items
templates/news/news_view_template.php	Article view, structured data, prev/next
templates/news/news_grid_template.php	Grid variants — see News grid
templates/news/news_menu_template.php	Latest, category, months, other, carousel, archive menus

All four sit in the theme folder and load automatically. No admin setting points at them.

A theme override replaces the plugin's template file completely — the two are not merged. If a future e107 release adds a new key to one of these files, the theme will not have it and that part of the output will fall back or break silently. Compare these four files against the plugin versions after every e107 upgrade.

Which pattern each listing uses

Template key	Where it shows	Tabler pattern
default	news.php front listing	Gallery teaser cards — image, category badge, title, summary, author, date, comment count
list	news.php?all, category listings	Job listing horizontal rows — image left, text right
related	Below an article	Inherited from the plugin, not restyled

The full article body no longer appears on the front listing — only the summary. The body shows in the article view.

Which of default and list is used on the front listing is set in Admin → News → Preferences.

News menus

The latest, category, months and other2 menus all use the same Tabler pattern: list-group list-group-flush list-group-hoverable rows with a count badge on the right. The archive menu keeps its expand/collapse behaviour from the plugin. The carousel menu and the other menu are Bootstrap 5 carousels.

What changed from the plugin defaults

• Bootstrap 5 cleanup. text-justify, .thumbnail, .span3, pull-left / pull-right, img-responsive and the old carousel attributes (data-ride, data-target, data-slide-to) were all replaced with their Bootstrap 5 equivalents.

• Equal-height cards. Every card grid uses row-deck row-cards, so cards in a row match height regardless of how long the summary is.

• Action buttons (comment, print, edit) are Tabler .btn-action buttons. Their icons depend on the theme's FontAwesome registration — see Fixing broken action icons if they come out blank.

• Count badges use text-bg-* rather than bg-*, otherwise the text is invisible — see Fixing invisible badge text.

• Clickable category badge on teaser cards, which the plugin's own template does not link — see Default caption and clickable category badge.

• Structured data (the JSON-LD block in the article view) is kept exactly as the plugin ships it, so search engines see no change.