Recent Post on Home

[rovielran]

Ive been seeing alot of of recent post on widgets but still cant figure out how to do recent post on home page basically before your forum starts.

Its like literally putting the "find_new_posts" template in the home probably on "node_list", below is a preview of what im looking for.



any help would be appreciated thanks!

 

[Robust]

My guess is that's [bd] Widget Framework.

 

[rovielran]

thanks! ill try hope this works

 

[creativeforge]

rovielran, did you succeed? Could you share your home page?

 

[rovielran]

rovielran, did you succeed? Could you share your home page?

hi unfortunately didn't manage to make it work,. still looking for solutions

 

[rovielran]

rovielran, did you succeed? Could you share your home page?

oh sorry just cleared my cache i manged to make it work the widget frame work quite straight forward here is my site pinoygamer.ph

Simple Instructions:
Just create a widget as for widget type choose "Recent Threads" then for position place "hook:forum_list_nodes"

 

[creativeforge]

Ah yes, I see it. Nice! You may want to make the fonts a bit bigger for the title PinoyGamer Latest Discussions.

I'm trying to do the same, except placing the Recent Posts in the right sidebar. I do have the Widget Framework, just find it difficult to learn a new language. Over time it will be easier...

Cheers! and thanks for the helpful reply!

 

[creativeforge]

So thanks to rovielran I was able to create a new widget, and I'm able to see the Latest Posts:

http://vi-control.net/xenforotest/index.php

Now I need to move it to the sidebar. I've tried all the various "layout" for sidebar but it's not moving. I looked at the "hook:forum_list_nodes" and tried to find a different hook but again, no joy. Any idea?

Thanks!

 

[rovielran]

hey dude change the position to any of this

 hook:ad_sidebar_below_visitor_panel, hook:ad_sidebar_bottom, hook:page_container_sidebar

hope it works

 

[creativeforge]

Thanks for the tip, I just came in. Question: where do you find these hooks, is there a list somewhere?

 

[rovielran]

oh i saw it on the settings area by clicking the "You can browse the site with templates and hooks information here."

 

[creativeforge]

great! Can you share a full screenshot? I would like to see where in the ACP this is, because mine doesn't have that...

 

[rovielran]

attaching my screenshot

 

[creativeforge]

thank you rovielran! have a great day!