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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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
- Good discussion, we just may implement this on our community soon as well.
Does anyone know if this has been added as a Lithium-included component?
