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Index of posts? - kresty - 2016-12-23
I want to index posts from another place in the forum. Like a subforum that contains posts from another forum.
In other words it's like if our forum tree was organized by color - but one might also want to find posts by shape.
Shapes Subforum
Blue Square Post
Red Circle Post
Red Triangle Post
Colors Subforum
Blue Subforum
Post about how pretty the blue sky is
Link to the Blue Square Post in the Shapes subforum
Red Subforum
Post about roses are red.
Link to Red Circle Post
Link to Red Triangle Post
The "links" could be in another subforum if necessary, eg: a subforum of Red that was "Red Shapes" subforum.
Is there some way to make links to other posts from other places like that?
I'm happy with the admin managing the links.
RE: Index of posts? - Waleed B. - 2016-12-23
Better if you give me a visual.
RE: Index of posts? - kresty - 2016-12-23
Hmm, I'm not sure how to do that
Basically I just want a post to show up in two forums
RE: Index of posts? - Matt - 2016-12-23
Even with a plugin it's gonna be pretty hard to have a permanent link to a thread in another forum like this, I think the only way you'd be able to do it is physically have two threads that maybe both get updated with the same content whenever the other is updated, but that'd create a whole load of other issues. I'm not really sure this is gonna be doable.
RE: Index of posts? - katos - 2016-12-23
Could you not use RSS to pull the new threads from one forum to another? Just an idea?
RE: Index of posts? - kresty - 2017-01-20
Hmm, if you move a thread, there's:
Move thread and leave redirect in existing forum for days: (leave blank for 'infinite')
So... could that be leveraged? Basically if I could create a redirect to another thread in the subforum I wanted it to be in, then I'd have what I wanted!
It sounds like I could move the thread to the subforum that I want my "index" to be in, then move it again and leave an infinite redirect.