Beginner's Guide

Figure 2: News feed data
When you create a news feed, you can configure in Display Options among other things whether you
want to display the feeds image or not. Also, you can limit the number of characters of the content
which should be displayed. This feature is very useful if the feed contains longer articles or if you use the
Feed Display module. You can create one in Extensions - Modules - New. Here is e.g. the New York Times
feed (http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/HomePage). Configure the module at position-4 and configure
the Basic Options (Figure 3).
Figure 3: News feed module
The result on the webpage will look like in Figure 4.
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
Monday, 30 January 2012! Page 165