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- Featured posts 2.2

Description:

Displays a random featured post from selected forums.

The first post of the thread is selected at random and will be displayed in the forum list or other widget location.

(Example of Featured posts)

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Features:

• Cron Entry will rotate posts every minute.
• All phrases start with featuredposts_ for your convenience.

Creating the widget:

1. Admin Control Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets
2. Widget definition = Featured posts
3. Widget key = featured_posts
4. Title = (leave blank)
5. Display in positions = Forum list: Above nodes
6. Click Save.

User group permissions:

Normally the following two groups are set to Yes:

Registered
Unregistered / Unconfirmed

Recommended add-on:

It's recommended that the following add-on be installed. This will allow attached images to show as thumbs in the Featured posts widget:

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Featured posts v2.3 changes:

Updated code to prevent possible null condition error.

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