Small update of dam_ttnews

Extention dam_ttnews introduces support for DAM in the media tab of the tt_news item. This is very welcome, but, in some situations, we would like to keep the support for "direct" upload of images. Sometimes users have no need to store images in DAM. In such situations, uploading to DAM and selecting the image presents additional (unwanted) few...

Customizing T3blog

To keep the number of views as realistic as possible, we should exclude at least our indexing engine, e.g., Mnogosearch. We can do that with an extra TypoScript definition and a small change in the function checkRiseViewNumber() that can be found in

/ext/t3blog/pi1/widgets/blogList/class.singleFunctions.php.

Add the following code...

MnogoSearch optimization example

Mnogosearch plugin's manual suggests that tt_news articles should probably be indexed from the database. This is true for sites where you have only one single page or you don't mind that all search results point to the same single view page. If we wish that search results take into account the Single view page that is based on the first news...