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The Latest News module is a useful, often used Joomla module from the default package. But seems to be not too easy to control, displays items apparently on his own, and it's unclear how to put something here.

Latest News Module will show by default latest items from your website. But, on development phase the "latest items" in many cases make no sense. And some items are displayed, others aren't.  Here's what you need to know!

You can control that from the module parameters. You can choose to show latest news from a particular section or multiple sections. Also, you can show your latest items from a single category or multiple categories.

To do that you must know the section/category id. The section id can be found in the Section manager and the category id in the Category manager.

In the module parameters enter the section/category id for the items you want to display. For multiple section enter all the ids separated by commas. Unfortunately you have no tools to control the display on per item basis. But that's generally is just enough to obtain the effect you need.



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