Latest Post Widget

Hello @s_t_harvey

At the moment I dont plan to add an excerpt to the latests posts/topics widget because it could possible break the design – for example when a post would start with a big image.

If you want I could add some additional hooks which allows you to add custom content to the widgets. In this case I could provide a piece of code which would do the job with the next update of Asgaros Forum. Please let me know if you are interested in this – but as I said before, there is still the risk that it could break your design.

Thanks for getting back to me!

I would very much be interested in this. I was going to look to write my own widget that did it but if there was one built into Asgaros that would be incredible.

I was wondering about filtering the excerpt to remove HTML tags so that just plain text remains – that way the risk of images causing a problem could be reduced?

Maybe it could get the entire post content, then remove HTML tags, and then return the first 50/100 characters?

Thanks again for your hard work.

Hello again @s_t_harvey

The upcoming version which I release in the next hours will contain the following two new hooks:

– asgarosforum_widget_recent_posts_custom_content
– asgarosforum_widget_recent_topics_custom_content

You can use them to add some custom content. For custom queries to select the post-text you can use the element_id which is given as a parameter:

function widget_custom_content($element_id) {
  echo 'My custom content: '.$element_id;
}
add_action('asgarosforum_widget_recent_topics_custom_content', 'widget_custom_content', 10, 1);
add_action('asgarosforum_widget_recent_posts_custom_content', 'widget_custom_content', 10, 1);

Ok wow, thanks so much, that was quick!

I’ll keep an eye out for the update and then add something then.

Thanks again for a great plugin.

Simon

Greeting

I need the forum date not to appear, can something be done?
Thanks

Hello @marciagomez

You can hide it with the following css-code:

.asgarosforum-widget .post-date {
    display: none !important;
}

Hello again,

That’s great, I have used the hook and it is working great ??

Is there a simple way in PHP to get the URL of a specific forum post using it’s ID?

Thanks,

Simon

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Simon Harvey.

Hello,

I have written a script that creates a 200 character preview of the post (and accounts for images) – https://www.educateoutside.com/forum/

I just need to figure out how to generate a link using the forum post ID – do you have any advice?

Thanks

Sorry, posted that a bit prematurely – I have figured out how to construct a forum post URL (not search engine friendly).

Thanks again for a great plugin.

Thank you very much for your excellent service

Hello @s_t_harvey

There is a function which you can use to get the URL when the ID of a post is given:

global $asgarosforum;
$url = asgarosforum->rewrite->get_post_link(123);