A Simplify Your Web module listing Joomla or K2 items: latest, featured, popular, upcoming or random, selected by tags, authors or fields, with thumbnails and pagination.
Latest News Enhanced is a module by Olivier Buisard (Simplify Your Web) that lists articles: the latest ones, those scheduled for the future, featured, popular or random. It works with both Joomla content and K2 items. It suits news sites and blogs for which the core Latest Articles module is too limited in layout and selection.
Features
- Selection by categories, tags, authors, date range and a custom field, with specific items included or excluded.
- Related items found through matching keywords or tags.
- An image taken from the article or a calendar badge; thumbnails cropped and resized and stored in /images, plus hover effects.
- Title and read-more links opening the full page or a popup.
- Responsive grid, colour schemes, a minimum item width, and support for Bootstrap 2 through 5.
- Item details: author, hits, rating, category, date and time, keywords; a length limit for the intro text.
- Pagination and caching of the generated stylesheets and scripts.
Compatibility
Joomla 4, 5 and 6 (JED also lists Joomla 3). Version 7.4.0, last updated in JED on 2 March 2026. A paid extended edition, Latest News Enhanced Pro, is also available.
