How do you do the announcements here on the forum home page? I've never seen any other forums set up like this?

Thanks.

LiveWire simply added a conditional to the forumbit template. If the forumbit is that certain Announcement forum, the HTML changes.

Would really like to know how as it would be great for my news forum...

Well, get an example of what you would like it to look like and I'll throw the code together for you.

I'd appreciate seeing an example of what you've done on this site as well.

Thanks,

Andrew

Well, what LiveWire has basicly done is change the forumbit template for the forum called Announcements. Nothing big, just a little conditional and some extra HTML.

I would like to know what little bit of code as i think it looks great...I would like the same as it is here.Also can you tell me is it just a forum called announcements or announcements from admincp?

It's simply a forum called Announcements with a different style. In order to make it look like this, you'll need to add 2 conditionals.

To the forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost template (this is the category), you need to add:

and change the X to your Announcements category id.

After that, open the template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post and add

Replace the X with the announcements forumid, and replace YOUR_NEW_CODE_HERE and NORMAL_CODE with the new code for your announcements forum and the old code of the template, respectively.

You forget an </if> in your first code. :p

can this be tidyied up and released as a template hack cause i have announcements on my forums but no one ever reads em - so having the box like this board does will certainly make them see them.

Cheers