Recent Topic Hook 3.x and Prior

[Nathan]

Out of the box with IP.Board you cannot change the amount of recent topics it shows.  It defaults to 5.

 

Here's an edit that gives you 10 and has a scroll bar to help save on space.

 

Lookup the file /admin/applications/forums/sources/classes/forums/class_forums.php

 

Around line 5519 change:

public function hooks_recentTopics( $topicCount=5, $output=true )

to

public function hooks_recentTopics( $topicCount=10, $output=true )

You now will see 10 recent topics instead of 5.  Now on to making it look pretty.

Open up your ipb_styles.css file in your look and feel editor in the adminCP. Scroll down and add this to the end of file.

.__xXrecent20topics ._sbcollapsable{
overflow-y: scroll;
height: 270px;
overflow-x: hidden;
}

[misterv520]

Nice. I noticed something was different with the board, I just couldn't make out what. It's funny that I used the recent topics to find this thread too haha!

[Nathan]

Updating this for 4.x version of IP.Board.

 

The code edit in the php file is still the same, however the CSS needs be modified some to this:

.ipsWidget.ipsWidget_vertical.ipsBox:nth-of-type(1){
overflow-y: scroll;
height: 412px;
overflow-x: hidden;
}

[Nathan]

Updated for 4.1x and above here: