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I would like a latest news slideshow thing, as in XenForo's xenPorta. How I imagine this to work is that the plugin would grab the latest 4 or so threads from a news forum (Like the portal), and grab the first image from it, and put it all together in an AJAX/jQuery/CSS3 slideshow, which would be mapped to a variable, like {$news} or sonething.

For an example, check this page out

Id like something similar to that.

If a plugin exists that can do this, or if I can do it through something else, with a tutorial, that'd be great too!

Thanks

Im going to build something like this as a block in the CMS plugin I am writing at the moment.

Although mine is going to be more of a news/image slideshow Basically it will be proof of concept. It will be grabbing the content from the CMS though and not the forums, however with that said, it wont be hard for someone to port over to use the forums instead