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Craig Macomber on 1189994911|%e %b %Y|agohover, last edited by 
gerdami on 1236238906|%e %b %Y at %H:%M |agohover
Creating a Blog, or a news display is easy when you have administrative privileges. All you have to do is add a forum category to the forum, and a Frontforum to the page where you want the blog. The easiest way to add the Frontforum is to copy the example text from http://www.wikidot.com/doc:frontforum-module into your page source, and follow the instructions on that page.
This is used on http://www.wikidot.com/ for the news feed.
Another neat thing you can do with Frontforum is to map it to several forum categories (as described in the documentation linked above) to collect the important news from all the sections of your forum.
Example of code
[[module FrontForum category="11432" feed="coffeetable" feedTitle="Wikidot Community Coffee Table"]]
++ %%linked_title%%
%%date|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z (%O ago)%%
%%summary%%
[!-- %%content%% --]
%%comments%% | category: %%category%%
[[/module]]
The example above used the summary of the post instead of the content of the first post.
Conclusions:
1. always put some text in the summary of a new thread, otherwise it would not be useful for the frontforum module
2. if you choose the %%content%%, keep your post short …
In action
Draggable Slideshow
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I was goofing around looking at some javascript code (inspired by Rob's very cool image slider) and stumbled upon this:
http://www.codelifter.com/main/javascript/draggableslideshow.html
I whipped up a quick demo here:
http://my-wd-local.wikidot.com/blog:draggable-slideshow
I'd like to see if there's a way to do this without trapping the slideshow within the bounds of the iframe. I have permissions set so you can view the source of my page. I'm not sure if this is really useful or just a novelty at this point, but I thought it was enough fun to share.
-Ed
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