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Last week, I installed Simple:Forum to replace a previous and rather crippled forum that I was running. While S:F has a steep learning curve, I'm really happy with the software: so many options and capabilities that I had been longing for… Meanwhile, I have tuned the forum to quite some degree: revamping the chosen theme, tampering with the php, etc. I've also redone much of the language files. Please look forward to receiving a better NL translation soon.

But there's one thing I can't figure out: the widget. Where and how do I control the formatting and the lay-out of the widget's output? Reading the support forums didn't help, unfortunately. I find it difficult to get information on the basics: for instance, does what I define in the widget relate to what I define under Admin -> SForum Components -> Announce tags?

I want a simple output on my main site's sidebar:

'Forum name'
'Topic_of_most_recent_posting' – 'poster' (times 5, or 8)

What I get through the widget when I _only_ select no. of postings and is this:

'Forum name'
'Topic_of_most_recent_posting'
blank line
'poster'
blank line (times 5, or 8)

…. so there are some 'p' in there that I neeed to get rid of. But how? There's talk of widget templates in the wiki, but I can't seem to find examples, nor where to put them or how to use them.

A current example of the widget in my sidebar – using only topics – can be seen at http://www.spaink.net/ : it's under 'Forumberichten'.

thanks & regards,

If you search for 'widget' in the wiki, the third item that shows up is 'Template Tags Overview'. There it says: "Template tags are special, ready-made routines for displaying pieces of
Simple:Press Forum information in various locations on your site such as
a widget, sidebar, footer, etc.". Hence, I was looking for templates and template tags to control the lay-out of the widget's output in the sidebar… Hence my misunderstanding.

Meanwhile, I've found the solution. I could get rid of unwanted <p>'s in the widget's output by changing some of the code in sf-template-tags.php. And I found a tiny error there, which actually prevented my changed code from being performed. In the coment at line 45, the ' in:

# are we passing forum ID's?

prevented the whole next block from being executed.