This is our module 'Featured Items Carousel'. It shows extracts and thumbnails from selected Joomla! news articles or from Mighty Extensions Resources articles in a carousel, with an optional auto-scroller. The version shown here uses articles from Mighty Extensions Rescources.

You can use this demonstration version to experiment with the module parameters.

This highly versatile module allows you to feature articles picked by id, by section or by category. The articles can be ordered in a variety of ways, including by the number of hits, or by the modification date, the title, random or custom ordering, allowing the module to function like the 'latest news' module, or like the 'most read' module, as well as displaying individually chosen articles, or used to display a random article.

The module displays a thumbnail plus an extract from the text with a link to the article for each item. There is a choice of colour schemes.

The module can use GD graphics for improved thumbnail quality. The administrator can set the length of the article excerpt either by setting the number of characters or the number of sentences.