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Description¶

The Single News Feed menu item type is used to show a single RSS News Feed created in the News Feeds component.

Common Elements¶

Some aspects of this page are covered in separate Help articles:

• Toolbars.
• The Details Tab.
• The Link Type Tab.
• The Page Display Tab.
• The Metadata Tab.
• The Associations Tab.
• The Module Assignment Tab.

How To Access¶

To create a new Single News Feed menu item:

• Select Menus → [name of the menu] from the Administrator menu (for example, Menus → Main Menu). Then...
  • Select the New button in the Toolbar. Then...
  • Select the Menu Item Type Select button.
  • In the modal dialog select the News Feeds item to open a list and then select the Single News Feed item.

To edit an existing Single News Feeds menu item:

• Select its Title in Menus: Items list.

Screenshot¶

Form Fields¶

• Menu Title: The title that will display for this menu item.
• Alias The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla will fill in a default value Title in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces.

Feed Display Options Tab¶

In addition to Yes/No or Hide/Show, these options allow the "Use Global" setting. This uses the default value from the News Feeds Options screen.

• Feed Image Show or hide the image of News Feeds.
• Feed Description Show or hide the description text of the News Feed.
• Feed Content Show or hide the content of News Feeds.
• Show Tags Show or hide the tags for a news feed.
• Characters count The number of characters to show if Feed Content from News Feeds is set to show.
• Feed display order Select the feed display order, most recent first, oldest first, or Global, the setting in News Feeds Options.

Tips¶

• You can set the News Feed options in two places.
  • In News Feeds: Options you can set the default values for all categories.
  • In News Feeds: New or Edit Category you can set values for a specific category. If set here, the settings override the default values.