Content Listing module missing functions (one important plus one minor)

bronston59

About Content Listing Module, it's really impressive.
However, it lacks one important function and another minor one, which still makes to prefer solutions such as those of Raxo. And I may add that old Gavick content modules had these two functions, which here are missing.
Fist, and really important, is the possibility to ignore a number of first articles-content. In a front page it's quite frequent, at least in news websites, to show first 4 (n) articles of one or two categories (A + 😎 / filtered by tags. Then, another module with 4 (n) articles one or more different categories (C+E). And then, again a module for A + B,... but skipping first 4, so as it can show from number 5 on. This is really important. And content listing doesn't allow that.
Minor function, also useful, is to be able to choose as an image not the intro separate ones but the first in the article. This is mainly useful in huge content websites, where authors production is fast.
So, very good module, but not perfect. So in these cases will be necessary to use solutions as Raxo one. Pity :-)

saguaros

bronston59

Thanks for your input, I will forward to our development team for further consideration.

bronston59

I'd like to add a new suggestion...
There's a pretty good magazine or newspaper template, from a developer which to be fair I wont't say, which adds something quite interesting, which is, instead of displaying category name, showing an extra field, which is a kind of pre-title (or subtitle), which is specific to that news.
I don't know wether this is possible in a module structure, or wether it's something of the general template as a bespoke feature. So maybe I say something stupid.
But in a magazine it is quite useful, and some big newspapers do it.
I mean: category can be politics, tags can be whatever, and pre-title can be '2021 elections', then title can be 'Polls predict Joe Biden wins'
Se attached sample, where 'uncertainty...' and 'notchless smartphones' are not categories nor tags, but an extra field (this a screenshot of the template I've mentioned)

These sample, from a very well known financial paper, does the same (there are many other like that).
As you can imagine, no media would create such a big complexity of categories, one per any mentioned company (easyjet, qantas) or specific theme (covid-19 vaccine, trade secrets). It's indeed a pre-title

Maybe it's a nonsense, as it would be difficult to do it in a standar module. Sorry if so.

saguaros

bronston59 Thanks for your suggestion, I forwarded to our development team also.