Addon XF 1.X [AndyB] Featured Posts 1.8

Displays a random featured post from selected forums.

The first post of the thread is selected at random and will be displayed in the forum list or other widget location.

Features:

• Cron Entry will rotate posts every minute.
• All phrases start with featuredposts_ for your convenience.

Installation:

1. Download Andy-FeaturedPosts-1.7.zip and unzip it.
2. Copy the src/addons/Andy/FeaturedPosts directory to your server.
3. From the Admin Control Panel Install the add-on.

Creating the widget:

1. Admin Control Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets
2. Widget definition = Featured posts
3. Widget key = featured_posts
4. Title = (leave blank)
5. Display in positions = Forum list: Above nodes
6. Click Save.

User group permissions:

Normally the following two groups are set to Yes:

Registered
Unregistered / Unconfirmed