Fixed Blocked forum posts are showing up in "Latest Posts" widget

[Bonsai Coder]

Affected version

XenForo 2.0.1

In options under Latest Posts widget, I have excluded an off-topic forum called "The Tea House"



However posts from that forum continue to show up in the Latest Posts widget:

 

[Ozzy47]

Did you check it with a non admin account?

 

[Bonsai Coder]

Did you check it with a non admin account?

Yes - checked in a different browser with a visitor (ie non-registered/non-signed in) account - still showing up.

 

[Steve F]

Is the Tea House a child of any other node?

 

[Bonsai Coder]

Is the Tea House a child of any other node?

It is under the "category" Home Forums, but it is not a child under another forum. (You can actually see this same list in the widget "options" I printed above).

 

[Steve F]

Had it been previously selected? Try saving the widget again, I'm not able to reproduce it myself on a couple different test sites.

 

[Bonsai Coder]

I actually have three widgets that display some version of "latest posts".

I have the one called "forum_overview_new_posts" causing me problems with these settings:



Then I have the one called "whats_new_new_posts" that is generated in the "what's new" tab. It has these settings:



And I have a third one with slightly different settings (and different name and key) that I use on the front portal page of the site.

It should be noted that widget #1 and #2 are stock widgets that come with standard XenForo install. Widget #3 I generated myself. Widget #2 and #3 block posts from "The Tea House".

Widget #1 does not.

 

[Chris D]

Unfortunately this is not something I've been able to reproduce either.

So we can investigate further, please create a ticket from your customer area and provide admin and FTP login details.

 

[Mike]

You've scrolled away, but the very first option in that menu is "all forums". If that's selected, it will take precedence over specifically selected forums.

 

[Bonsai Coder]

the very first option in that menu is "all forums". If that's selected, it will take precedence over specifically selected forums.

That was it.

A nice feature might be that if you de-select one of the forums, the "all forums" option automatically turns off.

 

[Wildcat Media]

Just to ask, if I may...

Does this mean the widgets do not follow forum permissions settings? We have private forum areas as well, which we would not want non-members to see.

 

[Chris D]

Yes it does follow permissions. That forum on the OPs site happens to be publicly accessible but I guess he just doesn’t want it showing in the widgets for some reason.

 

[Wildcat Media]

Thanks @Chris D, that makes sense. I think I'm used to all of my forums' "off topic" areas being for members only. Hard habit to break after 21+ years of doing this...

 

[Bonsai Coder]

Yes it does follow permissions. That forum on the OPs site happens to be publicly accessible but I guess he just doesn’t want it showing in the widgets for some reason.

Yes, that is exactly it. It is a gardening forum and people only wanted the gardening content in the "new posts" - not the off-topic forum content.

On two of the widgets I deseleted the "all forums" as well as "the tea house". On the first widget I guess I deseleted "the tea house" but the "all forums" remained selected. It is currently a two-step process in order to turn off both settings which are logically redundant and cannot work at the same time.

However it is not a "bug". Working as intended

 

[Chris D]

However it is not a "bug". Working as intended

All the same, we've made a small change for the next release which should make this clearer. If "All" is selected then we will only have that option highlighted after the form is saved.

 

[Bonsai Coder]

All the same, we've made a small change for the next release which should make this clearer.

That's excellent!