How to add discussions from a specific category to the sidebar panel

beschizza

How might I add a list of the most recently updated discussions from a particular category into a box in the sidebar panel?

Just the discussion titles, linked to the discussions themselves, would be enough!

This is with Vanilla 2.1, stable release.

peregrine

modify one of the discussion plugins that makes a panel and only select the category you want.

or look at any number of similar plugins that puts some discussion tiltle in panel just select on the date.

last comment date as I recall.

peregrine

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/latestpostlist-plugin

e.g. changing line 27 in plugins/LatestPostList/modules/class.latestpostlistmodule.php

would only retrieve the latest posts in CategoryID number 5.

you can look in

change from

$this->_LatestPosts = $DiscussionModel->Get(0, $Limit, 'all');

to

$this->_LatestPosts = $DiscussionModel->Get(0, $Limit, array("CategoryID"=>"5"));

you can get Category Name and ID matches from the Category Table

SELECT CategoryID, Name
FROM `GDN_Category`

beschizza

Thank you! I'll give that a try!

beschizza

This worked great. Thank you!