Open Anouncement?

[Lynne]

I just suggested a phrase cuz it's easy and looks cleaner to me in the template. You don't have to do it that way. There are a ton of different ways you could do it - you could even use templates. If I were to do it, I'd use a plugin. I'd have the condition, and based on which thread it is, I'd do a query and grab the first post in the Sticky thread that you want at the top of the thread and then spit it out. I don't know how comfortable you are coding, but that is a nice clean, simple way to do it. The easy way if you don't want to code is to do what I suggested and just write that condition at the top of the SHOWTHREAD template where you want the message/announcement to appear. You probably don't need the first condition regarding the forumid, you just need the condition regarding the thread id. So, you check to see if it's thread id xxxx, and if so, you spit out 'whatever'. If this were me putting the message at the top of the page, I'd put it either right above or right below the $poll.