Show Blog Entries in New Posts list

[JustAskJulie]

Is it possible to show the new blog entries in the new posts list? If so, how do I do this?

[JustAskJulie]

Can anyone help me with this?

[Lynne]

Blog entries are stored in a different table than the posts, so you would need to modify the query in order to do this.

[JustAskJulie]

Any idea if there is a mod available to do this?

[Lynne]

I don't know of one offhand, but I don't really keep track of all the modifications here. You can try a search and see.

[JustAskJulie]

Have been, that's why I finally posted an asked. Suggestion on how to modify the query to include blog posts (or include all content types)? would that be too server intensive? I may be able to satisfy by simply adding a link into my "new posts" drop-down that provides a direct link to the "new blog posts" alongside where it says "new group messages" (see attached image).

[Lynne]

I think you would need to keep the original query and then do a new one to grab the blog posts. Then merge the two resulting arrays and sort by date and then spit out the results. I don't really know if that would be easy or hard.

(Couldn't you just use the Activity Stream for this and only track posts and blogs?)