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I think the question means displaying the actual post content in each entry rather than just showing a truncated, html-stripped version as a tooltip. Is that right?

Not as it stands at the moment but we would be open to changing that.

The main problem from a technical point of view is the nature of the post content. It is stored in pure HTML format with all html tags in place. It can contain image tags and links, video tags and much formatting like bold and colours etc. And it can be of an indeterminate length. So it could be huge!

The current 'post tip' is sanitised of the HTML and truncated to a sensible length. This could be displayed in the widget/template tag with some minor enhancements to the tag code. But if you wanted the entire post intact with all html, then you are looking at a more major development, an unknown and uncontrolled display requirement and some concerns abut how it would actually be displayed. For example - images? Do they get included?

So - what was it you were looking for?

If it is any help, the recent posts widget uses the code at /wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/template-tags/library/sp-RecentPosts-tag.php

If you scroll down that function to the comment '# start the loop' , then you will see how it is built. The current post content as shown in the tooltip IS defined in the data object as $spThisListTopic->post_tip so this could be used as part of the main display as opposed to as a tooltip. Shown after the topic link perhaps... so for example:

case 'T':
    # Topic
    $out.= $beforeTopic;
    if ($tLink) $out.= "<a class='$linkClass' $title href='$spThisListTopic->post_permalink'>";
    $out.= sp_truncate($spThisListTopic->topic_name, $truncate);
    if ($tLink) $out.= '</a>';
    $out.= $afterTopic;
    $out.= $spThisListTopic->post_tip.'... ';
    break;

Of course - you would not be able to update the tags plugin without losing the change.