XF 1.5 Exclude Forums from New Posts Sidebar Block

[Amaury]

Is it currently possible to exclude certain forums' posts from showing up on the New Posts sidebar block, similar to excluding forums from the New Posts page? For example, a forum where you just do tests, so there's really no point in having those posts show up.

 

[wang]

No, there is no such option afaik. You will need a custom add on to be able to do that.

 

[Paul B]

You can set the forum options to not show under new posts.

 

[Amaury]

Perfect! Thanks, @Brogan.

I could see it being useful to separate that into two options, but this will do for now.

 

[rwm1962]

We achieve similar using the [bd] Widget Framework on 1.4. Hoping to do same on our new 1.5 were building

 

[doublespaces]

I know this is an old post, I'm on XF2 and this option still exists thankfully. But is there a way to hide any sign of a new post in a specific thread or forum as well? And by this, I mean the node is bolded or lit up, designating there is a new post. I have some automated archival stuff going on which happens in a chat room and I don't need people looking at this every 2 seconds there is a new post.