Cross promote blogs and discussion boards

Hi woodag,

There isn't a pre-built widget available that'll do what you're asking.  Just to make sure I understand correctly, you'd like to show a widget with recent board posts to show on your blogs pages and a recent blog articles widget to display on your discussion board pages?

If that's the case, your best bet is to create custom content via the Community Admin tool or custom components via Lithium studio that creates widgets as described above.  You're limited to the number of custom content you can create (9 content areas total) but the custom content code can be node-specific - meaning, you can have different custom content code for different levels of your community.  Custom components are built in Studio and are the same community-wide.  This thread does a much better job of explaining the difference. 

In your case, I would recommend going with Custom Component via Studio.  If you're not already, you'll have to familiarize yourself with our Rest API documentation.

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For each widget you build, you can specify which specific category or board you'd like to pull the most recent discussion topics or posts, and same for blogs, you can specify where you want to pull your latest articles or comments.  You can also specify your Rest API calls to pull up content based on other criteria like "featured topic" - a designation you can add to content in your boards you'd like to highlight or "feature".  This is only a backend setting and won't show anything on the community front-end if you mark a topic or blog article as featured.  But this option gives you a little bit more editorial control over what content you'd like to display in the blog/board widgets you want to create.

Once you determine which Rest API calls you want to incorporate into your widget, you'll have to add the styling html and css code within the custom content code to format and present the XML data properly, consistent with your community styling.

Hope that helps, woodag!

RickyS