Public News Page

Tools includes a public front page plus dedicated status/info routes for short operational updates and user-facing notices.

Public routes

• / - product introduction followed by the current news/status feed
• /news
• /information
• /services - canonical catalogue for available Tools services

/news and /information show the same stored page content. The front page embeds that content below the Tools introduction.

Front page presentation

The front page keeps service discovery compact instead of duplicating the full service catalogue.

• A short introduction explains that Tools covers web tools, APIs and integrations for areas such as DNS, RSS, AI, automation and media.
• The primary service link points to /services.
• Guests get direct login and account-creation actions.
• The introduction also mentions the available Chrome extensions and the mobile app currently in development.
• The old front-page Public Services grid and duplicate per-user service shortcut blocks are no longer shown there.

Backend access control is unchanged. /services is a discovery surface and does not replace authorization on the linked services.

What editors can change

The admin editor stores the news page content in the database so it can be updated without editing Blade templates or deploying code.

• Access: /feed-admin/newsflash (requires a signed-in web session with permission:rss)
• Editable fields:
  • browser/page title
  • visible page heading
  • lead text in Markdown
  • main body text in Markdown
  • optional back-to-front-page button label

Markdown is rendered safely on the public page, so headings, lists, links and basic emphasis are supported.

Optional external RSS source

The same editor can append the newest posts from an external RSS feed, for example a WordPress site used as a publishing surface.

• Enable the RSS section in /feed-admin/newsflash.
• Paste the feed URL, for example https://example.com/feed/.
• Choose how many recent posts to show.
• A custom section heading and custom intro text can still be supplied when needed.

The public fallback heading is News from Tornevall Networks. Previously stored copies of the old default heading Latest external updates are rendered with the new wording. The old setup placeholder beginning with If you connect a WordPress RSS feed here is suppressed on public pages, while genuinely custom intro text remains visible.

When enabled, Tools fetches the external feed and shows the latest posts under the manual page text. If the feed is temporarily unavailable or invalid, the manual page content remains visible and the RSS area reports the problem instead of failing silently.

Typical usage

1. Keep the main notice and the short status summary in the manual Markdown fields.
2. Publish longer updates from WordPress or another RSS-producing site.
3. Let the front page, /news and /information surface the current information while /services remains the central service catalogue.