Hi there!
Could it be possible to show the X most recent forum posts in the sidebar of an other blog?
This is our situation: We have our blog and forum on one WP installation (on dolcevita.no/blogg) while our main site is on another (just dolcevita.no). It would be very nice to show (promote and make accessible) our forum on our site's front page.
I don't believe there's any plugin for this purpose, unless it could be done using some rss thing...?
The thing is: I don't want to pull the blog's posts, but the forum's posts. Using SimplePress forum
I would be grateful for any hints
Kjetil
I have a test site that does the same thing for a phpBB forum on to the home page of a WordPress site. I can't guarantee that this will be here two months from now, but currently you can view it at http://www.radiowest.ca/wp/ The grey bar on the left side indicates the area where the most recent posts are displayed.
This was done in three steps:
- Write (and perfect using phpMyAdmin) the MySQL SELECT query to filter and capture the information from the forum's database tables;
- Write the php to execute the SELECT and format the data, outputting it in HTML;
- Embed the php in the WordPress page
Thanks - at least this means that its possible. Thats good!
Its just greek to me. Hopefully I can find someone who knows greek well enough
Thanks for lining out the steps
:o)
I see that you also posted the question on the Simple:Press support forum, which is what I was going to suggest now.
I guess now we are "even" as the response that you got there is Greek to me: "yes, you can use an rss feed aggregator… or modify/write the recent posts blog to access the other db instead of the one its installed on…"
I hope I don't do anything wrong by asking people in different places.
Its all about finding solutions, right?
I'll drop a note when/if I figure it out
Kj
I wasn't complaining about your posting in both places, merely trying to bring the information all together in one place.
And I really don't have a clue what the Moderator on the other forum is saying. Most likely because I'd never even heard of Simple:Press before now. Sad though, that major plug-ins (like this one and cforms II) choose not to be listed in the WordPress Plug-in Directory.
Note: cForms II ran into licensing issues with the extend/plugins repository and was 'delisted'.
As for Simple:Press could be they use software that doesn't fall under the GPL license requirements of the extend/plugins repository.
Anyway, SimplePress forum free for users (and I happily promote it).
I'll drop a line - here too - when I've had time to learn the tricks needed.
adiant
