Making Blogs show up in What's New?

[Onyx Z32]

Our members are mostly ignoring the 'Blogs' section mostly because they use the 'What's New' tab exclusively. If they could see new Blog posts & blog comments when they click the What's New tab, that would definitely help grow / drive people to the blog page.

Is there any way to do this? Thanks!

[kawe]

blogs already have " WHAT'S NEW "
you can click RECENT ENTRIES

[Onyx Z32]

Yeah, but no one uses it. If clicking the 'What's New' button once showed new threads, blogs and articles all together on one page, members could have an overview of everything that's happening on the site.

When vB was just threads, the 'New Posts' button provided that overview. Now with the addition of blogs and articles there is no way to see everything going on at a glance.

[kawe]

move RECENT ENTRIES to TAB near WHAT's NEW

[Onyx Z32]

You're missing my point. I already have a Blogs tab that no one uses, why create another? I'm asking if What's New can be made to show blogs and threads together. If it can't be done just tell me, lol.

[kawe]

i think you can't do it
or you can make WIDGET for LATEST BLOG :D

[Onyx Z32]

Yeah, I have a New Blogs widget on the home page already. It doesn't help much.

[your24hourstore]

you may be able to make a sideblock widget that house's both whats new and blogs

then get rid of the whats new button!

[Onyx Z32]

It's worth a shot, thanks :up:

[your24hourstore]

heres the mod to get rid of whats new if you can make the widget :>

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=238187

[animate]

@Onyx_Z32: Iam searching exactly the same thing, some users wrotes blogs, CMS contents, comments, and the activity is not high on this sites, only borad only is ok. becaus of the old members dont know , or like to click on everything , they click only on whats new button and they thing they see all news about the website, includes CMS, Blogs, Groups and others......

its a big shit so they user must klick on "Whats new" -> Blogs -> CMS -> Posts ->- Groups-> ....

thats more than 5 clicks.... no one use it , no user, no moderator, no admin!

hope vbulletin make it better next time...

[Onyx Z32]

Let me know if you find anything. I'm talking to our programmer to see if he can write something and I'll post up if he can.

[thrylos]

i need exactly the same thing 4 my site, also! :) there are many new posts per hour but also there are many new articles and blog entries almost twice a day for each category.

ty :)

[tpearl5]

yeh, it would be really nice to see a hack that made 'what's new' pulled in everything

[animate]

why cant vbb team not makeing a all in one page? :(

[Dean Hougen]

I want to add my voice to this chorus. Having all new content show up on one page when the "What's New?" tab is clicked is definitely the way to go. Only showing new forum posts with that tab is poor integration of the CMS and it shows in user behavior. Our users also don't notice new blog entries nearly as often as they notice new forum posts. At least with each new article a corresponding forum post is automatically generated that alerts them to the new article. But the blogs languish without better integration.

Dean

[mmoore5553]

is everyone wanting just recent blogs to show up when they hit whats new ? plus the whats new in forums ?

[Gunzta]

+ 1 from me.. Can't believe they didn't put this in as standard.

It would be really nice if the Whats New button showed you exactly that, sitewide results for eveything that is new to you. Forum posts, CMS, Blogs, Albums.. the lot.. :)

[KProjects]

No news on this?

[Onyx Z32]

I've kinda stopped worrying about the blogs section because it mostly goes unused. Hopefully something will be available eventually.

[Onyx Z32]

Just an update for the guys in this thread; this was just released:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=252601

This Add-on changes the behaviour of the What's New tab to include new content from all available configured content types (Blogs Entries, Articles, Social Group Messages, etc.) instead of only new forum posts.

This might be what we've been looking for!