Better visibility: displaying blog rss-feed inside forum (using widgets) is coming
 

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Originally Posted by Tigratrus (Post 1624328)
But we found a mod on vb.org to show blog entries in search results and Susan figured out a way to display the latest entries in our right hand column (we dropped CMPS when we went to Joomla! as our CMS). The basics of what she did was to use feedburner to grab the RSS feed from vBlog, then used feedburner's buzzboost to generate a code snippet that could be dropped into a USC block. Kind of a roundabout way to get it, but it works.
Take a look at our forum for a an example of how it looks.

There really should be a template that can be used for this sort of thing in the vBlog core, having members and guests *see* when new entries are posted is absolutely vital to the growth/survival of blogs in a forum system in our opinion/experience. Hopefully it's something that is being rolled into version 2. Prob not, as Jelsoft doesn't seem to put a lot of emphasis on the blog system being integrated at all, but one can always hope eh? ;)

James and Susan

Well, our hopes become real... see this blogpost:

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Originally Posted by Edwin Brown;bt5749
The cms system is a major rewrite, and the widgets require the new underlying structure. We're going to rewrite forum and blog to work the same way, but it's going to take time. That means in 4.0 you can't use widgets on forum and blog pages, but in a future release you will be able to. That is very high on our priority list but I can't promise you a date. Sorry.

If I understand correctly, then it will become possible to use a RSS widget on forumhome and display the latest blogentries there.