Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Threads on Forum Home

Latest X Threads on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum
11. Date & Time - Enable/Disable the time and date from being shown

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 11 Settings
4. 29 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Releases

1.1 - Fixed Moderated thread bug
1.0 - Initial release

Please Click Install if you use

For Latest X Posts on Forum Home CLICK HERE

[Aeolian_X]

In order to get this to work on my site, I had to change the Main plugin from forumhome_start to forumhome_complete.

[kansei]

Originally Posted by Criticize

I have added this to one of my templates in the sidebar and it looks great after I modified it. I am wondering how to get this to also show up in the forumdisplay as well?

I tried to edit the plugin and change forumhome_start to global_start and that got it to display, but it caused errors throughout my forum.

Please help me

Great hack!

Criticize --how did you get it working in the sidebar? I'm trying to get it in my sidebar but can't actually get it to display

[Teresa]

I need to get this in my left column. Any specific help?

[Michael Biddle]

Well for 1, I only provide support for people that click install,
and 2, it will only working on the forumhome template.

[shcchief]

Great work mike,

How do I get the thread names to appear as the recent topics, when new posts are made in them?

I suppose in a way, I'm trying to combine the functionality of the latest posts and threads mods, into one mod.

Thanks mate.

[heroia]

I can only show the last threads, not to show columns with user and forum ?

[Nikke]

Is there any way to install two of these to get two boxes with different content? Help would be deeply appreciated!

[ltd]

Thread title cutoff does not work for me

[OnyxChase]

Originally Posted by shcchief

Great work mike,

How do I get the thread names to appear as the recent topics, when new posts are made in them?

I suppose in a way, I'm trying to combine the functionality of the latest posts and threads mods, into one mod.

Thanks mate.

I have the same problem here.. It seems that they both use the same variables and I cannot for the life of me get both of them to work together.

I hope the coder can help us integrate both as I have the perfect place for it.. I will be waiting ......

Maybe change this one enough so that it doesn't interfere with the latest posts version..

[OnyxChase]

Ok guys, I got it working.

To get both the latest Posts and latest Threads to work together on the same forumhome page:

Go to Plugin Manager, and in the "Product : Latest X Threads on Forum Home" product, select the "Main Code" and edit.

Find all instances of $forumids

Replace with $forumids2

THEN ...

Find:

eval('$latest = "' . fetch_template('forumhome_latest_thread') . '";');

Replace with:

eval('$latestthreads = "' . fetch_template('forumhome_latest_thread') . '";');

Use $latestthreads in your forumhome template.

Both plugins were using the same variables thus causing a conflict!