I would love to see improvements to the Recent Topics Widget, particularly in Minimal View, to enhance usability and relevance. Specifically, I’d like to request an option for the widget to display the Username and Profile Picture of the most recent poster rather than the original topic creator. Often, the topic starter may have posted years ago and is no longer active, making their details less relevant in the context of recent discussions.

In a previous version, a custom code fix allowed this functionality, but it is no longer compatible with the current version. It would be great if this could be included as a built-in feature.

Additionally, I believe the widget could benefit from more customization options, including:

• Displaying the most recent poster’s profile picture and username.

• Showing the most recent post time in a "Posted X minutes/hours ago" format instead of the time of the original post.

• Preventing multiple entries from the same thread (so only the latest post from each topic appears in the feed).

• Displaying the forum section the post came from.

• Displaying the amount of posts or replies in that thread.

• Ensuring that clicking on a topic takes logged-in users to the first unread post rather than the start of the thread.

I appreciate the various view options currently available, but these changes would greatly improve the widget’s functionality and user experience. If needed, I’d be happy to provide further details or feedback.

Thanks in advance for considering this request!

Edited March 6Mar 6 by Demonland31

When viewing in fluid mode, it would be nice to have something to click to see first unread post in a topic.

• content reload with ajax

simply this https://www.sosinvision.com.br/index.php?/forums/topic/1221-recent-topics/ as a standard invision community widget 🤔

1 hour ago, Vodafone CZ said:

• content reload with ajax

simply this https://www.sosinvision.com.br/index.php?/forums/topic/1221-recent-topics/ as a standard invision community widget 🤔

That widget is not supported in sidebars. But yes something similar to that but in a sidebar.

Edited Tuesday at 08:12 PM2 days by Demonland31

16 minutes ago, Demonland31 said:

That widget is not supported in sidebars. But yes something similar to that but in a sidebar.

That's not a widget. It is a block that updates the topics/posts in X seconds with ajax.

@Adriano Faria When do you plan to update to v5? Can you show the effect of the widget update via AJAX?

https://ipsappzone.com/file/32-pro-stats/

On 3/6/2025 at 4:21 AM, Demonland31 said:

I would love to see improvements to the Recent Topics Widget, particularly in Minimal View, to enhance usability and relevance. Specifically, I’d like to request an option for the widget to display the Username and Profile Picture of the most recent poster rather than the original topic creator. Often, the topic starter may have posted years ago and is no longer active, making their details less relevant in the context of recent discussions.

In a previous version, a custom code fix allowed this functionality, but it is no longer compatible with the current version. It would be great if this could be included as a built-in feature.

Additionally, I believe the widget could benefit from more customization options, including:

• Displaying the most recent poster’s profile picture and username.

• Showing the most recent post time in a "Posted X minutes/hours ago" format instead of the time of the original post.

• Preventing multiple entries from the same thread (so only the latest post from each topic appears in the feed).

• Displaying the forum section the post came from.

• Displaying the amount of posts or replies in that thread.

• Ensuring that clicking on a topic takes logged-in users to the first unread post rather than the start of the thread.

I appreciate the various view options currently available, but these changes would greatly improve the widget’s functionality and user experience. If needed, I’d be happy to provide further details or feedback.

Thanks in advance for considering this request!

You can always add the widget as a block under ACP -> Pages -> Blocks. There you have the option to modify the block template and you can adjust it any way you like.