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Please help, our members are missing posts as the current widget only shows latest topics!!

Thanks

PS I've found this code but I'm not sure what to alter to make it work on my forum

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Better Recent Posts Widget
Plugin URI: http://pippinsplugins.com/better-recent-posts-widget
Description: Provides a better recent posts widget, including thumbnails, category, and number options
Version: 1.1.4
Author: Pippin Williamson
Author URI: http://pippinsplugins.com
*/


/**
* Recent Posts Widget Class
*/
class pippin_recent_posts extends WP_Widget {


/** constructor */
function pippin_recent_posts() {
parent::WP_Widget(false, $name = 'Better Recent Posts');
}

/** @see WP_Widget::widget */
function widget($args, $instance) {
extract( $args );
global $posttypes;
$title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
$cat = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['cat']);
$number = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['number']);
$offset = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['offset']);
$thumbnail_size = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['thumbnail_size']);
$thumbnail = $instance['thumbnail'];
$posttype = $instance['posttype'];
?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
<?php if ( $title )
echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>
<ul class="no-bullets">
<?php
global $post;
$tmp_post = $post;

// get the category IDs and place them in an array

$args = 'numberposts=' . $number . '&offset=' . $offset . '&post_type=' . $posttype . '&cat=' . $cat;
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
<li <?php if(!empty($thumbnail_size)) { $size = $thumbnail_size + 8; echo 'style="height: ' . $size . 'px;"'; } ?> >
<?php if($thumbnail == true) { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" style="float: left; margin: 0 5px 0 0;"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array($thumbnail_size));?></a>
<?php } ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br/>
<span class="time"><?php echo human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' ago'; ?></span>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php $post = $tmp_post; ?>
</ul>
<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?php
}

/** @see WP_Widget::update */
function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
global $posttypes;
$instance = $old_instance;
$instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
$instance['cat'] = strip_tags($new_instance['cat']);
$instance['number'] = strip_tags($new_instance['number']);
$instance['offset'] = strip_tags($new_instance['offset']);
$instance['thumbnail_size'] = strip_tags($new_instance['thumbnail_size']);
$instance['thumbnail'] = $new_instance['thumbnail'];
$instance['posttype'] = $new_instance['posttype'];
return $instance;
}

/** @see WP_Widget::form */
function form($instance) {

$posttypes = get_post_types('', 'objects');

$title = esc_attr($instance['title']);
$cat = esc_attr($instance['cat']);
$number = esc_attr($instance['number']);
$offset = esc_attr($instance['offset']);
$thumbnail_size = esc_attr($instance['thumbnail_size']);
$thumbnail = esc_attr($instance['thumbnail']);
$posttype = esc_attr($instance['posttype']);
?>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>"><?php _e('Title:'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('cat'); ?>"><?php _e('Category IDs, separated by commas'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('cat'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('cat'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $cat; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('number'); ?>"><?php _e('Number to Show:'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('number'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('number'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $number; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('number'); ?>"><?php _e('Offset (the number of posts to skip):'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('offset'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('offset'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $offset; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('thumbnail'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('thumbnail'); ?>" type="checkbox" value="1" <?php checked( '1', $thumbnail ); ?>/>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('thumbnail'); ?>"><?php _e('Display thumbnails?'); ?></label>
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('thumbnail_size'); ?>"><?php _e('Size of the thumbnails, e.g. <em>80</em> = 80px x 80px'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('thumbnail_size'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('thumbnail_size'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $thumbnail_size; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('posttype'); ?>"><?php _e('Choose the Post Type to display'); ?></label>
<select name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('posttype'); ?>" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('posttype'); ?>" class="widefat">
<?php
foreach ($posttypes as $option) {
echo '<option value="' . $option->name . '" id="' . $option->name . '"', $posttype == $option->name ? ' selected="selected"' : '', '>', $option->name, '</option>';
}
?>
</select>
</p>
<?php
}


} // class utopian_recent_posts
// register Recent Posts widget
add_action('widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("pippin_recent_posts");'));

?>

Do you use phpBB2, please provide your forum url.

Hi,

Yes sorry I do use phpBB2 and my forum addy is americandayvans.com

Thanks

That code doesn't work on forumotion, PHP is not allowed.

Thanks for your help. How about this code then? Or should I just give up? lol

<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0 0 ##ffffff;
border: 0.0em solid #1177AA;
color: #222222;
font-family: HelveticaNeue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 700;
line-height: 20px;
padding: 0 3px 0 8px;
text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline;
width: 150px;;">
<h2>Under Construction</h2>
<ul style="">
<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 15, 'category' => 12345 );
$cat_posts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $cat_posts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
<li><a style=" font-size: 12px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration: none;" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<ol style=" font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold; color:#CC0000; text-transform: uppercase;"><?php the_date(); ?> | Author : <?php the_author(); ?> | <?php comments_number('no responses','one response','% responses'); ?></ol>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div>

Or.... just a thought... can I override the recent topics widget to display posts instead?

Please avoid double/triple posting. Posts need to be separated by 24 hours before bumping, replying or adding more information. Please use the edit button.

Hi,

The code you found is PHP and it won't work on Forumotion. I don't think you can display topics for last 24 hours. However, you can somehow show topics since user's last visit or unanswered topics.

You can use javascript for that if you know it.

This will display a list of new topics here, from the past 24 hours:

/search?search_keywords=&search_author=*&search_time=1

That, plus some javascript, will get the OP what he wants.

As would having his members use the Notify and Favorites features.

Oh yeah! Advanced search has this ability

Ok, thanks everyone. Sorry, I'm still learning.

Solved ** Moved