# Add-on (ideally Stack) for news (ideally database driven)

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/add-on-ideally-stack-for-news-ideally-database-driven/1585>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [August 18, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/add-on-ideally-stack-for-news-ideally-database-driven/1585 "2015-08-18T15:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarkSealey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marksealey/32/22895_2.png) [@MarkSealey](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MarkSealey)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/add-on-ideally-stack-for-news-ideally-database-driven/1585/1 "2015-08-18T15:48:12Z")

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May I ask for recommendations, please, for a TOC-style Stack or other Add-on that I can use to display news items - headline + content?

Ideally (MySQL) database-driven.

Until now I’ve been using [NilRog’s _Flexible List_](http://nilrogsplace.se/plugins/flexiblelist/).

Similar functionality… but I’d really like a system where I I can put ‘Headlines’ in one place/on one page - or in Sidebar, and content in another. Stacks would be best.

TIA!

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**Author:** ![jspencer2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jspencer2](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jspencer2)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/add-on-ideally-stack-for-news-ideally-database-driven/1585/2 "2015-08-18T20:45:28Z")

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Why not use Armadillo to create a blog and then you can use the RSS feed to put the content anywhere. You can even have RSS feeds displayed as headlines only and then another feed stack for the content elsewhere. This is what I used for a school website that wanted headlines on its front page.

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**Author:** ![MarkSealey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marksealey/32/22895_2.png) [@MarkSealey](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MarkSealey)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/add-on-ideally-stack-for-news-ideally-database-driven/1585/3 "2015-08-18T21:05:47Z")

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Jonathan,

Thanks! I’d thought of that… I have _Armadillo 2_, of course 🙂 .

But could I get rid of all the clutter that comes with a Blog?

I just want a straightforward single line of text as header; then the ‘news’ in simple, formatted paragraphs.

But I do want the headlines maybe in the home page sidebar and news elsewhere.

Can it be ‘clean’, though?

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**Author:** ![gille](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/gille/32/496_2.png) [@gille](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/gille)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/add-on-ideally-stack-for-news-ideally-database-driven/1585/4 "2015-08-19T07:31:34Z")

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In fact you can add a simple blog and have a backend for it with : [http://www.pulsecms.com/](http://www.pulsecms.com/)  
Very easy to install (no database needed).

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**Author:** ![MarkSealey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marksealey/32/22895_2.png) [@MarkSealey](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MarkSealey)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/add-on-ideally-stack-for-news-ideally-database-driven/1585/5 "2015-08-19T14:32:24Z")

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Thanks gille!

I’ve standardized on _Armadillo_.

But I’ll take a look 🙂