On my main page I have a block for recent news, what I would like to do is have 3 blocks that have recent news from each news catagory. ie.... sports news (recent stories) , international news (recent news) etc... How can I create blocks for this? What code would I put in the custom block?

Thanks in advanced.

hi, take a look at this thread. Applying this code will allow the 2 current blocks (the blocks that display by recent and hits) to function as recent news by category. You could then simply add more blocks that make use of news_top.php. (look in modules/news/xoopsversion.php and modules/news/templates dir to see how blocks are configured and work.)

An easier way is to use the "Topics Block Module", also revered to in the thread mentioned above. A new news module is in beta testing at the moment. If you're not in a hurry, it 'll have these functions as well.