the hottest topics is in the template tags plugin… grab it from the download page… its not a widget, but a template tag or a shortcode…

That explains why it wasn’t just “obvious” to me, haha thank you 🙂

Takes some getting used to…

Yeah but it’s much more user-friendly than pretty much any other board I’ve used, too. The WP integration and the fact that I can more or less customize the look in a similar fashion makes it much more appealing, to me at least.

So my next dumb question… where can I find a list of the template tags I can use?

I only ask because I’ve looked around (briefly anyway) and didn’t see any.

edited:::
I’m still a bit of a newb at coding so I know I’m doing this. I got to looking around in the plugin’s main file and added this to my widget (I’m using exec php to run php code in a text widget).

sp_hot_topics (wrapped in php)

But it’s not doing anything so what am I missing?

the start of codex help:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/template-tags/

really needs more work… we are working the codex but slow going…

but best place to look is at the bottom of the template tags plugin main file… everything after:

# ==========================================================
# Simple Links
# ==========================================================

is a template tag or shortcode…

if you have exec php, then template tags are fine.. or shortcodes if you dont want to use php…

then when you find an interesting tag, look in the library at the specific file for the options…

and dont hesitate to ask here either…

what did you add??? seems stripped out… when pasting code, paste in the code, highlight it and then use the code button and select php… code button is the one that looks like ${}

I don’t see the code button you had mentioned.

sp_HotTopicsTag (this wrtapped in PHP)

and I tried

sp_hot_topics

edited:

now I’m trying something like this:

sf_latest_posts(5);

and getting this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function sf_latest_posts() in /problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/username/public_html/addondomain.com/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 1

But I partly wonder if I’m using depreciated code?

as I said, the code button looks has the text ${} on it…

whoops… hit submit too quick…

you want:

<?php sp_HotTopicsTag(); ?>

to use the default options

ah you’re using a different editor than me, that’s why.

Ok I changed my editor to HTML and see a lot more options!

So I’m trying something like this:

Comes up blank.

Returns an error.

But even something that should work like:

Returns this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function sf_recent_posts_alt_tag() in /problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/pilecrap/public_html/problem-with-post-edit-buttonauntedpaulding.com/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 1

oh sorry… the code button – the fancy one anyway, is only available in tinymce, the rich text… html does have a button too just not as fancy output…

all three of those are wrong and from version 4…  they wont work in version 5… you have to use the template tags or shortcodes that are in the template tags plugin main file…

for hottest topics:

<?php sp_HotTopicsTag(); ?>

or the shortcode

[sp_HotTopicsTag]

if you were using template tags in v4, they all need to be changed to equivalent 5.0 tag…

THAT WORKED! And I assume I can input options the same as in the last example I posted?

Also Rich text – TinyMCE was selected by default for me and it didn’t show any of the options.

I can tell I’m going to have to play with my theme code some. It creates a separate box from the widget I’ve made for it. So like

WIDGET TITLE
empty space
HOTTEST TOPICS

instead of
WIDGET TITLE
HOTTEST TOPICS.

Anyway, I’ll figure that part out I’m sure. Thank you a lot!

no, options are entered differently…  there is a single argument to the template tags now

<?php sp_HotTopicsTag($args); ?>

the args are a classic php arg list…  so to change number of topics shown

<?php sp_HotTopicsTag('limit=10'); ?>

to go back 60 days,

<?php sp_HotTopicsTag('limit=10&days=60'); ?>

for example…  see the actual template tag file in the library of the plugin for the possible arguments…

Ok that makes more sense. Like your template tags page says, refer to the tags page for WP. So I don’t know why I expected these to be different. Good stuff! Thanks again!