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Dear all,

Is it possible (using currently 4.2 beta 1) to have the latest forum posts with the latest avatar picture who posted it? Nor really super crucial but we run a community site with more than 1000 members and having avatars on the frontpage would make it more attractive and increase the eye-candy factor.

Any help including the code snipet to paste would be highly appreciated!!

Jan 29, 2010
10:18 am

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no, thats not currently possible… you could probably edit the template tag and add that in, but might need to worry about the size… can open a ticket for future consideration since this is like the third time someone has asked…

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Jan 29, 2010
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is it not possible to built something similar in php with the shortcodes which you provide within simple press. E.g. it is already possible to use the forum-avatar outside of the forum, e.g. in the author-box of a post.

Jan 29, 2010
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I dont understand what you are saying…

you would need to modify the template tag to output the avatar. remember you need to know the poster of the latest topic being displayed…

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Jan 29, 2010
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true so. The problem is that it needs to be looped. I just thought it would be possible to add to the existing "latest post" widget the template tag sf_show_forum_avatar($email, $size=0). But the $email must be linked to the latest member who posted on the post.

Jan 29, 2010
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that 'might' work if you modified the query to make sure you had the email… might be easier to direct call the avatar display function (that which the avatar template tag you reference calls anyway)… need to worry about the size too… most avatars are too big – would want to offer size option with default of pm size…

as I said, I opened a ticket and plan to take a quick look at it this weekend and see if its real easy as I suspect… If so, might be able to get it into beta 2… If its involved, wont make large changes at this point in the 4.2 dev cycle…

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Jan 29, 2010
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Mr Papa said:

as I said, I opened a ticket and plan to take a quick look at it this weekend and see if its real easy as I suspect… If so, might be able to get it into beta 2… If its involved, wont make large changes at this point in the 4.2 dev cycle…

awsome! looking forward to that!

Jan 29, 2010
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we shall see if it makes into beta 2 or has to wait for 4.3…

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Jan 29, 2010
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