displaying custom sidebar blocks with latest posts and topic

[OptimusBain]

Hello everyone,

Do you know of any plugin that will allow to create custom blocks of latest posts or topics where you can choose the forums that can be displayed?

I mean, IPS allows that, of course. But once you drag such a block on a forum as a sidebar, ALL the forums display the same posts. There is no way to display a custom Latest Topics/Posts sidebar block that displays the latest topics/posts from the selected forum(s). 

There should be a possibility to do that. Display individual and unique custom sidebar blocks  showing the latest topics and post that do not show on ALL the forums. Each forum should have (optionally) the possibility to display its own latest topics/posts.

Thanks a lot 

[Daniel F]

There‘s an app in the marketplace for this

 

[OptimusBain]

5 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

There‘s an app in the marketplace for this

 

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. Much appreciated.

Shouldn't this feature be a built-in core feature of the community? This plugin is forcing you to create a block for each sidebar, I have dozens of forums. I don't understand why such a simple thing as "Display latest posts of selected forum(s)" is not a feature. It's very basic. Thanks a lot

[TDBF]

5 hours ago, OptimusBain said:

Hello everyone,

Do you know of any plugin that will allow to create custom blocks of latest posts or topics where you can choose the forums that can be displayed?

I mean, IPS allows that, of course. But once you drag such a block on a forum as a sidebar, ALL the forums display the same posts. There is no way to display a custom Latest Topics/Posts sidebar block that displays the latest topics/posts from the selected forum(s). 

There should be a possibility to do that. Display individual and unique custom sidebar blocks  showing the latest topics and post that do not show on ALL the forums. Each forum should have (optionally) the possibility to display its own latest topics/posts.

Thanks a lot 

This is free and will do what you want.

 

[OptimusBain]

2 hours ago, TDBF said:

This is free and will do what you want.

 

Thanks a lot. I read its description but I can't see whether it does what I need.

1. Can it dragged using the page manager? I read some rewiews reporting that it does not appear in the block manager

The problem I have with IPS default post feed is that once the block is dragged on s forum, it will display the block with the same latest posts on all the forums 😞 it won't allow me to display the latest posts for each particular and individual forum.

Thanks a lot

[TDBF]

40 minutes ago, OptimusBain said:

Thanks a lot. I read its description but I can't see whether it does what I need.

1. Can it dragged using the page manager? I read some rewiews reporting that it does not appear in the block manager

The problem I have with IPS default post feed is that once the block is dragged on s forum, it will display the block with the same latest posts on all the forums 😞 it won't allow me to display the latest posts for each particular and individual forum.

Thanks a lot

Yes, you can create as many different version of the block.

With this, you can select which forums you want to display topics/posts from and customise it further.

I personally have never had issues with this plugin showing up in the manager, if this happens to you, please let me know and I will look into this issue.

[OptimusBain]

On 9/19/2021 at 12:15 AM, TDBF said:

Yes, you can create as many different version of the block.

With this, you can select which forums you want to display topics/posts from and customise it further.

I personally have never had issues with this plugin showing up in the manager, if this happens to you, please let me know and I will look into this issue.

Thanks a lot. I've installed it and it seems to be working well. However, I am missing an important feature that I use a lot and that is the possibility of filtering the posts and topics by tags. I've searched on the block manager but I can't see the tag is available. I guess it's just not possible. Or the possibility of having a option to "display only the posts of the category the block has been dragged". That was a feature I used a lot on vBulletin which I miss a lot on Invision, something very simple but very powerful that will prevent us from having to select dozens of forums every time a new block is added. 

I know this is a free plugin and you coded it for your own community. So I understand that.

Edited September 22, 2021 by OptimusBain

[TDBF]

43 minutes ago, OptimusBain said:

Thanks a lot. I've installed it and it seems to be working well. However, I am missing an important feature that I use a lot and that is the possibility of filtering the posts and topics by tags. I've searched on the block manager but I can't see the tag is available. I guess it's just not possible. Or the possibility of having a option to "display only the posts of the category the block has been dragged". That was a feature I used a lot on vBulletin which I miss a lot on Invision, something very simple but very powerful that will prevent us from having to select dozens of forums every time a new block is added. 

I know this is a free plugin and you coded it for your own community. So I understand that.

There is a pulldown menu where you can select the forum to pull posts from.

I will have a look at adding tags in a future version.