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I’m trying to draw out the last 10 posts from the EE forum module, and I got it working.. almost. This is the code I use:

{exp:forum:topic_titles forums="not 3|4" orderby="post_date" sort="desc" limit="10"}
<li><a href="http://{thread_path=forum/viewthread}">{title}</a></li>
{/exp:forum:topic_titles}

Now, it’s working perfectly on my index page and its subpages, but not on my wiki theme.

It draws out the correct number of posts, and the links work, but the title only say “index” instead of the topic title. Any clue why?

Are you saying you want to run {exp:forum:topic_titles} inside of your wiki? I don’t think that’s supported, actually.

Hmm.. well, explains why im not getting the titles.. Kinda strange that it manages to bring out the posts from the forum thought, if its not supposed to work :p

Moved this down to technical support. This won’t work in a wiki article, but it should work in the wiki theme.  Can you clarify exactly where you’re placing this code? I’d like to try to reproduce this, if you’re doing it directly in the theme.

Thanks!

Hi Lisa,
It is situated inside the body tags in the theme, where the default theme’s footer used to be. I say used to, because this code replaces the footer.

Everything here works except for the forum title, which comes out as “index”, instead of the topic title.

Alright, this is a matter of parse order. If you use any tag that has a {title} variable, it’s going to output the title of the wiki page.  The way around this is, as mentioned, to put the code into another template and embed it in the wiki theme.

That work for you?

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll do that. Glad I found a bug you guys can eliminate, ‘em buggers keep crawling into places they shouldn’t be at :p

I ninja-edited my postings above, so have a fresh look at them, please. =)

yes, works like a charm with embeding it 😊

Awesome.  Yes, anytime you have something with a title or other variable conflict, simply look at embedding it; that avoids parse order and confusion.  Essentially, you were nesting tags, and so it was taking the variable of the outer tag. 

Glad you got it working!