Shyatic Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I'm trying to do a "featured post", and underneath that create news so I don't have to recreate the wheel in Wordpress or something to match my IBP template (plus users, and other features). Is there a way to do that? Essentially what I want is have a 'featured post' with a graphic or something, some information on it, and that's about it, and underneath that pull the 'news' from another forum. I guess it would be two forums to do that. Any help is appreciated in that regard... not sure if it's possible or not, but I think it's something that allows me to use IPB as my frontend for everything, rather than just for the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Sounds like you need to use the built in portal and set up a news forum. Check out my site here. I use the built in portal. With the news forum only admins can start new topics. I have it so that the last 3 topics have their first post on the front page. Hope this helps. 3DKiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyatic Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 [quote name='3DKiwi' date='14 May 2009 - 02:21 PM' timestamp='1242325310' post='1801749'] Sounds like you need to use the built in portal and set up a news forum. Check out my site here. I use the built in portal. With the news forum only admins can start new topics. I have it so that the last 3 topics have their first post on the front page. Hope this helps. 3DKiwi Not exactly.... I want to have a "news" forum where a few admins can post news, and then a "featured news" that remained "stickied" at the top until the next "featured" news articles comes along to replace it. Very simply, it would look like this: http://abcnews.go.com/ Look at how the main (big) picture is their 'featured' article, and then everything underneath it is a simple news article. I wonder if there's a way to do this by playing with the code or not, but I don't want to go down the road of reinventing the wheel if I don't have to. Wordpress can do this easily, but then matching the template to the IPB template I'll have will require a lot of work, plus I won't get the benefit of having the user groups and all that stuff shared. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Not really possible with the portal. 3DKiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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