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"Recent Forum Post Widget" and/or "Featured Topics and Posts" plug-in

ML Mark Lyons
Mark Lyons
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Member since Apr 2016
17 posts
Apr 16, 2016 · 8:12 pm · Edited

All,

My goal is to put a “Recent Forum Posts” in the sidebar on my forum page. But to be frank, I’m not sure how to do this. I installed the “Featured Topics and Posts” but still haven’t figured out how to use or what it exactly does (and I’m not convinced this is what I need).

While researching “Featured Topics and Posts” I ran across several references to a “Recent Forum Post Widget” … this sounds more applicable to my situation. With that said, though, I can’t locate this widget.

Here’s my forum page:

http://www.icwoa.org/wp/forum/

Any suggestions on how I can accomplish my goal?

Thanks,
Mark

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Member since Dec 2006
19,448 posts
Apr 16, 2016 · 8:32 pm

with the plugin comes a widget..  just go to the wp admin for widgets and add the recent posts widget where you want it…

more info:  https://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/recent-posts-widget/

if you cannot use the widget then you will manually need to add the template function in your theme where you want it… more details:  https://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-recent-posts/