Cross promote blogs and discussion boards
Want to add a Widget to my blog pages that lists recent topics on our discussion boards, and vice versa. Is this a widget Lithium has pre-built, and if so how to get it on the appropriate pages? I d...
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Here is a little example code for you. It will display the latest 3 blog article teasers from all blogs in the community
<#assign messages = rest("/topics/style/blog/recent?page_size=3").messages />
<div class="recent-articles-container">
<#list messages.message as message>
<div class="recent-article-wrapper">
<div class="article-header">
<div class="article-subject"><a href="${message.@view_href}">${message.subject}</a></div>
<div class="article-posted-by">
<span class="author">Posted By <#if message.author.login != "" && message.author.login != "Anonymous"><@component id="common.widget.user-name" user="conv:${message.author.login}" /></#if></span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-teaser">
<#if message.teaser?length gt 0>
${message.teaser}
<span class="read-more"><a href="${message.@view_href}">Read More</a></span>
</#if>
</div>
</div>
</#list>
</div>
KaelaC / RickyS:
Thank you for the help. I'm finally getting around to trying this.
I put the code into a custom component on my stage server. In the preview it appears it is pulling in the three most recent posts from the various blogs in our community. How to I get it to pull from one specific blog only?And then, how do I create another that pulls from a discussion board or group of boards in the same category?
To pull from one blog change the first line to
<#assign messages = rest("/blogs/id/[your blog id here]/threads/recent ?page_size=3").messages />hit a snag trying to do this. tech had me change it to
<#assign messages = rest("/blogs/id/[your_blog_id_here]/topics/style/blog/recent?page_size=3").messages />
also for anyone else reading this, the final steps in order to have this Content to show up with the proper styling of its title were:
go into Admin > Content > Custom Content
create a new Custom CONTENT with the title you want shown on the page, and that calls this Custom COMPONENT with the following tag
<@component id="[custom_component_id_here]"/>
go back to Studio > Page and put the Custom CONTENT into the appropriate page
go back to Admin at the Community or Board level, Display > Page Layouts and reassign as needed
once pushed to production you will need to repeat the admin steps on your live site
