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Watchmanz
Home page forum feed

  • 2009/4/6 21:30

  • Watchmanz

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 32

  • Since: 2008/3/11


Another question .... I would like to have my site home page as showing the last two or three posts (truncated to a certain number of characters, with a "read more" link) from admin-defined forums. Similar in a way to the way IPB Portal and MKPortal etc act for forum sites.

Any suggestions (keep in mind I am definitely a newbie in this XOOPS thing lol) are most welcome.
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Watchmanz
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2009/4/14 3:30

  • Watchmanz

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  • Since: 2008/3/11


Obviously not lol
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tcnet
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2009/4/14 3:54

  • tcnet

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 297

  • Since: 2006/5/12


Welcome to Xoops!

I think most of the current forum modules offer some kind of a "Recent Topics" block.

Once you have a forum module installed look in admin panel under system|blocks for the forum's blocks. Edit the "Recent Topics" forum block to be Visible, assign it to the center block and select to display on the Top Page.

Depending on the module you choose, the block should have several preferences you can set such as the number of posts, length of text, limit to subforum, etc.

Next, go to system|groups, select a group that you want to be allowed to view the forum's "Recent posts" block and check the box next to it.

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Watchmanz
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2009/4/14 4:17

  • Watchmanz

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  • Posts: 32

  • Since: 2008/3/11


Awesome! Thanks for the help mate.
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Caileadair
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2010/1/20 21:58

  • Caileadair

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  • Since: 2010/1/13


I'm also trying to get a forum feed using CBB 3.08. I've got the block set with all 3 user groups having access, but I'm still not able to pull any posts (though the block itself does show).

Perhaps someone can let me know some other things to check? I've also gone over all the other forum permissions and they seem to be set correctly.

Thx, in advance!

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ghia
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2010/1/21 7:08

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


Which block?
What settings are used in edit block?
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Caileadair
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2010/1/21 12:44

  • Caileadair

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  • Since: 2010/1/13


It's the forum Recent Posts block which is set to be in the center, top page, no cache, visible.

The edit block settings are:

Number of posts: 5
Time period: 30
Display mode: Full
Display Navigator: No
Title/Post length: 20
Allowed forum list: Forum Information (though I also tried ALL)
Groups access: has all 3 selected

the Forum Information thread has one post to begin with, so that one should be showing in the feed.
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ghia
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2010/1/21 23:52

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


Probably your posts are more than 30 days old. Set the time limit to 1000 (3 year) or more.
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Caileadair
Re: Home page forum feed

  • 2010/1/22 13:15

  • Caileadair

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  • Posts: 10

  • Since: 2010/1/13


the 2 posts that exist are from Dec. and Jan. so not old. I tried setting it to 1000 and the block disappeared. The same thing also happened when I tried to use that 1000 setting with Recent Topics.

is it possible that this is theme-related and not CBB-related?
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sailjapan
Re: Home page forum feed

could be. try it with the default theme activated.
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