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Also can create RSS feeds.</p> <p>In more details - each new forum thread from selected forum categories is used to create new news item (first post makes the body). Several parameters allow customization.</p> <p>If RSS feed is created a link will also be put into the document head (feed info should appear in browsers automatically) and below the news items.</p> <h2 id="toc1"><span>Attributes</span></h2> <table class="wiki-content-table"> <tr> <th>attribute</th> <th>required</th> <th>allowed values</th> <th>default</th> <th>description</th> </tr> <tr> <td>category</td> <td>yes</td> <td>semicolon-separated integers</td> <td>none</td> <td>numerical IDs of the forum categories (look at the URL address); multiple categories can be used to create news</td> </tr> <tr> <td>feed</td> <td>no</td> <td>alphanumeric</td> <td>none</td> <td>if present - RSS feed will be created with the filename equal to its value</td> </tr> <tr> <td>feedTitle</td> <td>no</td> <td>string</td> <td>"<em>sitename</em> feed"</td> <td>title of the feed</td> </tr> <tr> <td>limit</td> <td>no</td> <td>number</td> <td>20</td> <td>how many items should be displayed</td> </tr> <tr> <td>offset</td> <td>no</td> <td>number</td> <td>0</td> <td>how many items to omit from the beginning?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>fixRelativeLinks</td> <td>no</td> <td>true</td> <td>none</td> <td>fixes links for forum posts if you're using categories from external forums, e.g. Wikidot News / Changelog etc.</td> </tr> </table> <p><strong>Category IDs</strong> can be found when looking at the URL address of the page which lists the threads in the category. It looks like this:</p> <p>http://community.wikidot.com/forum/c-<strong>12</strong>/bugs-and-problems</p> <p>So in this case the category ID is <strong>12</strong>.</p> <h2 id="toc2"><span>Item format</span></h2> <p>A custom format for displaying news items can be chosen. To specify a custom format one should use module invocation:</p> <div class="code"> <pre> <code>[[module FrontForum category="..."]] <custom format> [[/module]]</code> </pre></div> <p>where the inner <tt><custom format></tt> element is any block of text following the wiki-syntax, where special variables can be used:</p> <table class="wiki-content-table"> <tr> <th>variable</th> <th>aliases</th> <th>description</th> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%title%%</tt></td> <td></td> <td>title of the news item</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%linked_title%%</tt></td> <td><tt>%%title_linked%%</tt></td> <td>title of the news item linking to the original forum thread</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%link%%</tt></td> <td></td> <td>URL pointing to the original forum thread</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%author%%</tt></td> <td></td> <td>prints author of the thread</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%date%%</tt></td> <td></td> <td>prints posting date</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%date|<em>format</em>%%</tt></td> <td></td> <td>prints posting date with a custom format. Most tokens from php's <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php">strftime</a> are accepted. You may find <a href="http://community.wikidot.com/howto:frontforum-date-variable">the howto</a> contributed by community useful.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%comments%%</tt></td> <td></td> <td>number of comments = number of threads posts - 1</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%category%%</tt></td> <td></td> <td>forum category where the thread belongs (linked)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%description%%</tt></td> <td><tt>%%short%%</tt>, <tt>%%summary%%</tt></td> <td>short summary of the item</td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>%%content%%</tt></td> <td><tt>%%text%%</tt>, <tt>%%long%%</tt>, <tt>%%body%%</tt></td> <td>full content of the item (post)</td> </tr> </table> <p>The default format is:</p> <div class="code"> <pre> <code>+ %%linked_title%% by %%author%% %%date|%O ago (%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z)%% %%content%% %%comments%% | category: %%category%%</code> </pre></div> <h2 id="toc3"><span>Examples</span></h2> <p>The news from the <a href="/start">main Wikidot site</a> use the following code to produce both the news on the main site and a feed:</p> <div class="code"> <pre> <code>[[module FrontForum category="8" feed="news" feedTitle="Wikidot site news"]] ++ %%linked_title%% %%date|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z (%O ago)%% %%content%% %%comments%% | category: %%category%% [[/module]]</code> </pre></div> <p>You should change the <tt>category</tt> and <tt>feedTitle</tt> parameters of course to match your own Site.</p> </div><div id="action-area" style="display: none;"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="page-options-container container"> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6"><img src="https://www.wikidot.com/common--theme/wikidot30/images/amazon.png" alt="amazon.png" class="image" /></div> <div class="col-sm-3"> <p><a href="http://blog.wikidot.com">Official Wikidot blog</a></p> <p><a href="http://community.wikidot.com">Community</a></p> <p><a href="/doc">Documentation</a></p> </div> <div class="col-sm-3"> <p><a href="/about">About Wikidot</a></p> <p><a href="http://shop.wikidot.com">Gift Shop</a></p> <p><a href="/legal:terms-of-service">Terms of Service</a></p> <p><a href="/legal:privacy-policy">Privacy policy</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container license-area"> Copyright 漏 All Rights Reserved, Wikidot Inc. 2025 </div> </div> </div> <div id="dummy-ondomready-block" style="display: none;" ></div>  <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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