Top 5 "Hot" Topics on Forum Home Page
 

This little one puts a list of the five threads with the most replies that have been active in the past 7 days on your forum home page.

You can change the query to make it 10 topics with most views or whatever suits your needs.

Things you may want to change:

To get the top 10, 20 or whatever topics instead of 5, change to the number of your choice.

To get the top topics based on views instead of replies, change to To keep track of the top threads that are currently active, no matter when they were started, change to

I installed it and modified the template a little bit to my liking. But you have a HUGE BUG!

Take this out of $topicstring in the plugin! "http://www.eaforums.com/forums/"

Oops. I never really intended to share this one. I'll fix that now.

The problem is fixed in the zip.

still doing it on my forum

...but sorted it 'mesell'

Hahahahah! Love the 5th Topic's title amy!!

That's our Amy! ;)

If anyone is interested, I edited a few things to make this look more in line with the rest of the What's Going On box. See the attached pic. ;)

It is also collaspable. ;)

I did the same thing... I made it collapseable as well as moved the number of replies to the title attribute so that it shows only on mouseovers. I also replaced the breaklines with spaces.... One more change is since my board likes to have long lengthy discussions over months at a time, I made it the 5 hottest topics for the month. :)

Here's a screenshot.

http://forums.5solas.org/

Yeah, my what's going on box is very different than most people's. That's why I put in there that the html was only a suggestion ;)

Amy