Show recent posts from other blog?

  • Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    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

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  • jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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:

    1. Write (and perfect using phpMyAdmin) the MySQL SELECT query to filter and capture the information from the forum’s database tables;
    2. Write the php to execute the SELECT and format the data, outputting it in HTML;
    3. Embed the php in the WordPress page
    Thread Starter Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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)

    jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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…”

    Thread Starter Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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

    jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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.

    Thread Starter Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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.

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