I know that a forum topic can be added automatically when a new weblog entry is created, but I have a potential client asking for something a bit different.

He would like to know this:

So for a particular wiki topic, the left column will have navigation, the center column will have the wiki article, and the right column will have the latest forum thread on that topic, and also the latest blog on that topic

So it sounds like he’d be looking for consistent categories across weblogs, forum and wiki, and the ability for EE to display entries and forum topics in a wiki page with the same category as them.

Can anyone shed some light on the possibility of this out of the box vs. customization… thanks.

Chad, forum and weblog entry linking is done via forum_topic_id in the exp_weblog_titles. There are no categories for forum topics.

Wikis have their own categories, which aren’t linked in any way with weblog categories.

Not sure how you could blend them altogether.

What I do is create a wiki entry with the same url title. But without the uppercasing.

Then in theory you could query that and grab the entry_id for the single weblog article.

It would certainly need a custom solution.