Promote to Article problem

[wampforum]

HI folks, hope someone can help me out.
I am running a forum sidebar (using the everywhere sidebar mod) and I have a couple of blocks that pull the latest threads from a couple of different forums (one per block).
The problem is as soon as I promote a thread to article the thread will no loner show in the sidebar block. I was running 4.1.12 and just updated to 4.2 and still have the same problem.

I am at the end of my tether with this now. Threads show fine in the blocks its ony upon promotion they disappear

[Lynne]

What options are you setting on the Promote to Article page? (all of them, please - a screencap is fine)

[wampforum]

HI Lyn,
I forgot to say I have been using the 'Use original Thread for Comments' mod. I have tried the inbuilt one but got the same result (after uninstalling the mod to avoid clashes).

I have for clarity disabled the mod again and just tried to promote to article and same thing happens. the settings I used are:

Keep original thread? Yes
Move to comments forum? No
All Comments? yes

[Lynne]

Once you promote a thread to an article, it is no longer a thread, it is a *comment* thread associated with the article. So, threads and posts in it will no longer show up in any new thread/post type widgets.

[wampforum]

kind of makes sense I guess, I dont suppose you know of a way around it then? At present I am having to create a new article duplicating the content in order to keep the thread in my forum block widget but that obviously creates two sets of content and seperate comments.

I did used to run the advanced forum statistics mod and that would continue to show the original thread even after promotion so I guess theres a way somehow, just maybe not an easy one!