I fixed some small bugs in the place here module that threw notices (not errors, stuff like undefined array indexes etc). And on behalf of two commenters I added some small stuff:

There is a new template “titles only” which, as you might guess, shows only the titles of the articles; you can enable the “link title”, “show create date” and/or “show modify date” parameters, most of the other formatting settings are ignored.

I have to say from a performance point of view this is not a good solution, since the module will still pull _all_ of the article information from the database only to disregard most of it in the template, but it might be useful if you have mod_placehere anyway and do want to install yet another module.

Maybe I should provide a way to build you own templates for the module from within Joomla (in fact I have a pretty good idea how to do it but at the moment I shy away from the effort).

The other change relates to the “show frontpage item” setting. There is a new setting (directly beneath) called “Flip Frontpage setting”, that applies the Frontpage setting to the non-frontpage Items.

Yes, I knew you wouldn’t understand this, so here’s how it works: If you set “Show Frontpage Items” to “show” all articles will show. If you set “Show Frontpage Items” to “hide” the articles that have the “show on frontpage” flag (in the article parameters) will not show. if you set “Show Frontpage Items” to “hide” _and_ set “Flip Frontpage Item Setting” to “yes” then only the frontpage items will show.

Come to think of it this might not be the most intuitive way to do things, but I thought it was a good idea at the time and who am I to contradict a clever lad like me.

This has been tested with J! 1.5.2 in PHP 5.2/Windows/Apache. For the download page click here or look in the sidebar for “Module for 1.5 (new).