• 3 types of news items:
  • standard news articles,
  • external links and links,
  • pointing to internal pages.
• Full multi-language support
• News-articles can be associated with each other and/or internal pages. If two news articles are related, the link back to the source article is inserted automatically.
• The view of the complete news article  (single view) can be split to multiple pages. Page breaks can be inserted manually by a user defined "page break token" or after a certain amount of words.
• All types of media files can be assigned to news-articles.
• The appearance of the news plugin on the website can easily be changed by editing the HTML-template.
• 2 different HTML templates included:
  • A table-based template which is known from older tt_news versions and
  • a new CSS-based template (see screenshots below).
• Categories can be assigned to news (multiple selections possible). Categories can also be nested to each other. News can be selected (or de-selected) for display by their categories or parent-categories.
• If the extension xajax is installed, the category trees in Back-end forms can now be expanded and collapsed. If you have a huge category tree this will speed up the rendering of the tree significantly.
• "tt_news category manager" a Back-End module for managing news categories (located under Web->Info). It shows the complete category tree - expandable and collapsible - and offers drag and drop for moving and copying news categories.
• Category-images and category-titles can act as link to a specific page or function as category-selector.
• The Single view of an article can show a list of news, having the same categories assigned as the current article.
• In the Back-End categories can be used to configure the editing permissions for news records. A list of allowed categories can be configured for a Back-end usergroup. If a member of this group tries to edit a news record that does have at least one category assigned that is not in this list saving of the record will be disabled.
• Internal search function with configurable "search fields" (can be combined with the category-selector function to filter results by categories).
• "Editlock": By activating the checkbox "Restrict editing by non-Admins" a news record can be locked for editing by non-admin users.
• "Automatic archiving": After a given number of days has passed, news are automatically in the archive, no need to set an archive date manually for each item.
• Supports caching and Indexing: If caching is enabled news-articles are indexed by the extension "indexed search".
• Supports "direct preview": When the "save & view" button in a news record (in the Back-end) has been pressed the "single view" of this record will be opened on the website. 
• Several possibilities to add user-defined scripts to process the output of the extension e.g. to add your own markers and template parts.
• Supports export to the following XML-feed formats: RSS 0.91, RSS 2, RDF Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0.
• Supports versioning for news records. "Versioning preview" is supported with a special mode of the tt_news content element (VERSION_PREVIEW) which will be available if the extension "version" is installed.
• "Context sensitive help" (CSH) for all fields in the tt_news and tt_news_cat Back-end forms.
• Support for workspaces (TYPO3 4.0 required)

• List,
  Lists news items with their teasers, by date range, category or multiple categories
  
• Latest
  Lists a limited number of the most recent news items, which can be selected by date and/or category. Ususlly used on a home page.
• Archive-menu,
  Lists news litems which have expired, by the date of creation
  
• Single-view,
  Full view of the news item, and its associated links and media files. If the story is long it can be divided up by a section menu
• Search,
  Search form restricted to new items
• a menu from nested categories (CATMENU)
  Enables a subset of the totla list to be displayed, depending on category. Individual news items can have several categories
• a special kind of single view: the "version preview"
  displays version previews of single news items, if the versioning extension is installed

• Manual
• News Group
• CSS-based default template
• Default CSS styles

Working with the Extension

• Provided you RTFM as you install the extension, it works well out of the box.
• It helps, particularly if you are likely to have a lot of news, to be aware before you install how you want to structure your categories.
• The CSS styles provided produce bright green output. If this bothers you (and it probably will) you can easily spend a great deal of time  modifying the output.

This section is a list of extensions with similar functionality and/or objectives to the main extension.Only extensions with manuals are normally included.

Mini news (mininews)

This extension is a simple lightweight news system. News can be displayed as frontend teaser, article list or single news view. News articles have date, teaser and rich text editor for news item.

If this is actually all you need, there is no need to get involved in the more complex (but much more powerful) set up of tt_news

The extension also serves as example of extension programming.

Press center

The Press Center can be used to place news items on a website. The main goal is to provide information for the press presented so that they can use it very easily. In this it differs from tt_news, which is more designed to publish news directly.

• Multimedia objects can be linked to news items.
• News items can be downloaded as a zip file, containing all linked multimedia objects an the all text information in different file formats, used by the press in general. 
  
• There is some statistics fnctionality in addition. Each download is written into the statistics table.

News - Flexible

This extension handles news articles, where each article is associated with a specific page ID in your site hiearchy. All articles are created and edited through the "List" section of the Typo3 backend.

On the resulting pages, the articles are presented in an article list with just a few articles in (usually the most recent). The remaining articles are put in a separate article archive (a separate sub-page on your site), which you can link to from the bottom of the list of new articles.