Today's Topics (with limitations) help please

[dvduval]

I just recently migrated www.dance-forums.com from phpbb to vbulletin and I am VERY happy. :)

One feature that my users enjoyed on phpbb was I showed the latest 6 posts at the top. It looked like this:

Latest Threads
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5

It was just plain html (thread title linked). Here are the considerations:
1. I only want to show threads that are in certain forums (so I assume it would be something like WHERE forumid = 3,4,5, or 6 sort of logic)
2. What I mean by latest is threads that have received replies.

I hope this makes sense. You can see an example of this in action at www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum (phpbb but probably not for long) :)

[Vierie]

Try this hack: Latest Threads On Forum Home (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83230)

[dvduval]

Yes, I tried installing that.
First, it doesn't simply display the latest active topics.
Second, I don't see a way to exclude certain forums.
Any ideas?

[Vierie]

Yes, I tried installing that.
First, it doesn't simply display the latest active topics.

You mean, you get to much information or you don't all the latest active topics?
If it's the first, try playing around with the forumhome_latestthreadbit template. There you can change what you want to have displayed.

Second, I don't see a way to exclude certain forums.
Any ideas?

Here's the solution for that problem. You have to change the php code of the hack.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=670517&postcount=35