Mr Papa said
you switched from featured topics to featured posts… two different things… but if its giving you what you want, then great!

Yes. Still couldn’t get the topics feed to work. But wound up not using either (for the moment).

If you decide you want to use either in the future and still can’t get them to work, just shout – we will be here!

I hope to play with the functions this weekend and make sure they havent gotten busted…

ah… have you actually defined any featured topic IDs?  on forum – components – featured topics/posts…  looks like an error is generated if you have not defined any topics to feature… 

we should handle that better… will open a ticket…