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Flash Kobo
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Apr 29, 2013 - 6:44 am

Well no – we can't really do that. It depends 100% on where you want to put it – which pages/views you want to show it on and more importantly even than that – how your WordPress theme is constructed as they are all different – sometimes remarkably different.

I am trying to show the featured topics on a wordpress page.

Now i figure how to get the featured topics to show on a page. Next issues is Look at the way it shows below

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  • Forum: Questions and Answers Section
    Topic: How to Bounce Back After Losing Much Money
    Be Wise - 3 hours ago

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Now what I want is to

1. Hide the Forum name (in this case-Questions and Answer Section). I dont want the forum name from where the topics are pulled to display. I just want the topics to show

2. I want to hide the author as well (in this case, Be Wise ..thats the author)

3. I want to hide the timestamp (in this case, 3 hours ago)

4. I want to able to display like 20 topics like that

Where do I need to edit.

And yes, is there a shortcode for calling the sp forum into a wp page and not the one it creates.

Thanks for your patience with me.

 

 

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Yellow Swordfish
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Apr 29, 2013 - 7:37 am

Try this:

<?php sp_FeaturedTopicsTag('itemOrder=T&beforeTopic=');?>

I think that should work although I can not try it at the moment.

And no - it is not possible to display the forum via a tag or shortcode.

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Apr 29, 2013 - 7:41 am

I had to edit this post.

Actually we are getting somewhere. This is the shortcode i now have

[sp_featured_topics itemOrder="T" limit="20"  beforeTopic"]

Below is the result

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Hot Topics
  • Topic: How to Bounce Back After Losing Much Money
  • Topic: Verifying Your Paypal Account Even if Your Country is Not Accepted

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It is working perfectly as I want it. But how do I now hide that "Topic:" I just want to display the topics without having to have "TOPIC:" there.

Everyone, thanks so much

 

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Mr Papa
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Apr 29, 2013 - 12:53 pm

okay, I would point you to the codex ;) but looks like a shortcoming of it...

the arguments to shortcodes cannot be camel case...  so you want to use

[sp_featured_topics itemorder="T" limit="20"  beforetopic"]

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Flash Kobo
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Apr 29, 2013 - 6:29 pm

I still cantfigure how to remove the "Topic:" in the featured topics. No help is visible on the codex. Also Is there a shortcode for calling forum categories or groups into a wp page, like, as I would list a category on a normal site

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Mr Papa
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Apr 29, 2013 - 6:33 pm

did you try my change??

Also Is there a shortcode for calling forum categories or groups into a wp page

not sure what you want to do, show the forum on another page?  no, as Andy answered in post #22

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Apr 29, 2013 - 6:46 pm

I did try the change I am still getting same results. See image 1

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What I mean by categories? See image 2:

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I need a way to call the forums (categories or whatever) into a page, not the entire forum. Just the forum names or groups or whatever.

 

Thanks

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Mr Papa
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Apr 29, 2013 - 7:27 pm

sorry, just noticed you had a typo in your code and I carried it over to mine... it should be

[sp_featured_topics itemorder="T" limit="20"  beforetopic=""]

If you just want a link to the forum or group, just enter the link into the location... you can copy it from the main forum page...

or see:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-group-link/

or there is a corresponding forum link tag

sp_ForumLinkTag()

but it seems missing from the codex...  or if you want a list of all forums, you could use:

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-forum-dropdown/

will open ticket to get the one added to the codex...

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Flash Kobo
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Apr 30, 2013 - 12:34 pm

Thanks. That code worked perfectly. I am very grateful...Though I am still learning...Will be back for further questions, hope you dont mind

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Mr Papa
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Apr 30, 2013 - 12:52 pm

nope. here to help.  thanks for the update.

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