[Feature Request] Latest Topics/Posts improvements - General Discussions

RE: Custom widget developer?

Olaniyan Olanrewaju — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:04:06 +0000

Thanks @Robert, Great of you sire!
Please can i get any suggestion of developer from you?

RE: Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Robert — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:38:51 +0000

I'm sorry but I have no other suggestion. You should find some developer to create a custom widgets.

I''ll suggest Your team put popular post widget in you to-do list as this will solve a lot of issues.

Thank you, we'll take this under consideration for sure.

RE: Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Olaniyan Olanrewaju — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:36:31 +0000

Thanks a lot for the quick reply @Robert,
the issue is that I already had a widget on the home page having Recent topic on the home page in which i want to have another widget which will show popular Topics/ topics with most reply or kind of...
I think what you suggested will also affect the Recent topic widget i have on that home page already.
Also, if probably there is a way i can edit the code of recent reply not to show Topics repeatedly but just arrange them in order of topics that have most high replies.
Please what else do you think i can do.

I just hope i will get a solution.

I''ll suggest Your team put popular post widget in you to-do list as this will solve a lot of issues.
Best Regards. Thanks.

RE: Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Robert — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:47:37 +0000

@olaniyanolanrewaju23

For this purpose, you can use the "Recent Topics" widget instead of "Recent Posts". And if you want to sort/order the list of topics with recent replies yo should make this change:

Open /wpforo/wpf-includes/functions-template.php file and find (first match) this line:

'orderby' => 'created',

Change it to this:

'orderby' => 'modified',

The code part:

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-06_2146.png

We'll add options to control recent topics order in widget in future releases, so you'll be able to update it safely.

RE: Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Olaniyan Olanrewaju — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:35:58 +0000

Admin please can you help me with this as my client hangs on me.. @wendell asked almost a similar thing..
The recent replies widget keeps giving a repetition of a single topic that has more replies, so i am thinking if we can there is anyway to have it display only the most popular topics in order of highest replies and not repeat same topic on the list::- that will be so good as it is common on most forum engines and my client is really on my neck for this..
Moreover if i can get anyone to help me with this, I'll be so thankful.
Best regards.

recent-replies-widget.png

RE: Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Wendell — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 01:13:34 +0000

If I were to make one more suggestion for the Recent Posts page, it would be to add something showing how many replies there are. But that's certainly not a priority, just an idea for a possible future update.

Thanks again for all you do. I really, really, really enjoy wpForo. I'm very glad I moved away from xenForo.

RE: Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Wendell — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:12:10 +0000

Thanks Robert.

Yeah, I totally understand. I was thinking the first part of the request is the primary functionality we are looking for. The second part would be the dream functionality. ;-)

It might be good to have some options available in the admin area so different admins can sort those lists per their own tastes. But I do think my request is probably the most common usage.

Thanks again!

RE: Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Robert — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:39:12 +0000

Ok, nice! In next release we'll list recent topics with recent replies.

The widget improvement may take a bit longer. So it's better and faster to improve the Recent Posts page.

Latest Topics/Posts improvements

Wendell — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:21:34 +0000

The #1 requested feature from my users involves some changes to how the Recent Topics and/or Posts are displayed. Right now, I can display Recent Topics and it shows them in descending order from the date of the original post. I can also show the Recent Posts, but it shows multiple posts within one topic. This means that a popular topic can cause the Recent Posts widget to fill up quickly with posts from a single topic.

What I and my users would really like to see is a list of topics that are sorted based on the latest post to each topic. That way, the list of topics changes as more posts are made to each topic. I think this is a pretty common feature of other forums.

Even better, it would be awesome if you implemented a widget that would display recent topics with recent posts within each topic, similar to your extended topics found within individual forums, like this: https://cl.ly/3u3521123d3p but maybe with a little less detailed information (for example, you probably don't need to show post counts and all that). How cool would that be? I don't think any other forum does that.