As you know, I am running the Minimalist theme and it has a side bar that is displayed all the pages.  The side bar includes a recent posts section.  I would like to include a Recent Forum Post section that just says Who Posted the on what topic… So for instance: "Desi on Simple Forum is Great."  The html for the normal recent post section is pasted in below.  Don't suppose you could assist in changing this to pull up the right information from the sf portion of the database?

 Thanks!

Desi

//–<?php

$today = current_time('mysql', 1);

if ( $recentposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_date_gmt AND post_type='post'< '$today' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 5")):

?>

//<h2><?php _e("Recent Posts"); ?></h2>
//<div class="box">
//<ul>

//<?php

foreach ($recentposts as $post) {

if ($post->post_title == '')

$post->post_title = sprintf(__('Post #%s'), $post->ID);

echo "<li><a href='".get_permalink($post->ID)."'>";

the_title();

echo '</a></li>';

}

?>

//</ul> 

I like the new tags and have it working great.  Just out of curiosity though, is there any way to make it work in the format I noted above.  I would just like it to match the way recent comments are set up.  And I noticed I included the wrong code above — the above code is for posts which do not note the author.  Here is the current code for recent comments…

//<?php
    global $comment;
    if ( $comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_author, comment_author_url, comment_ID, comment_post_ID FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved='1' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 5") ) :
  ?>

 //<h2><?php _e('Recent Comments'); ?></h2>
 //<div class="box">
 //<ul>
 //<?php
        foreach ($comments as $comment) {
          echo '<li>' . sprintf('%s <span style="text-transform: lowercase;">on</span><br />%s', get_comment_author(), '<a href="'. get_permalink($comment->comment_post_ID) . '#comment-' . $comment->comment_ID . '">' . get_the_title($comment->comment_post_ID) . '</a>');
          echo '</li>';
        }
      ?>

Also, any way to just have it say the Topic name without the "Topic:" in front?

Thanks!

Excellent thanks!

Looks great.  Thanks so much!

What, exactly, is it you are after?

Well - using the supplied template tag as detailed in the guide. Is that what you mean?

Well I specifically didn't put classes in so that you can style the list from your themes stylesheet. It will pick up whatever list styles and paragraph styles you have in place for whatever area (i.e., div) that you place it. So that is where you have to look.

The line breaks you want would currently involve editing the tag code itself (in sf-tags.php). It will probaqbly be best if in the next release I try and add some more formatting options in the tag parameters. The problem, as usual, is that everyone wants it to look different! Which is why I just allowed it to pick up the current theme styles.