some code help plz
Design and Skin Customization
1st off ill mention that im in the beta ning to jr group as well as the beta site builder for the ningja skin
but heres the couple things im attempting to accomplish but having some trouble
1 ningja uses a single profile as the main forums since ning wasn't as profile centric, so on my front page i want a forum post list, of the most recently active posts, all from profile id 13331 wich is where the main site forums are, but additionaly, if possible i want a title (and profile pic) like you get with the standard listing, but also below it a short excerpt from the post... say anwhere from 250-1000 charachters (and maybe with a read more link after)
2 additionally i want a "shops page" that has a featured shops list at the top, kinda like an ad, if possible id want aslider simular to the elastic skins front page member slider but that includes a randomized list of featured shops , with thier names like elastic has...and optionaly if possible a short shop description.. so far i have set up a random list of 5 featured shops but would be nice if it refressed every x number of sec, or was a slider type thing.
3 on the shops page (i have no access to data store data since my sites not live and is on a temporary test domain so cant do test sales, to gather the data store ids) but what i want...if its possible is a list of most recently added items(of all types from all shops), most recently purchased items (if possible) most recently viewed (if possible) highest rated and a purely random list of items for sale just to provide multiple avenues of exposure to all shops items.
1 other note for the forums list ive tried multiple ways of ordering by latest activity only to have very random results and even have stuff from 5 years ago come up 1st...and oddly enough..last both ends of the list were items not updated in 5 years
(i do have a suspicion it might be due to the fact its just freshly imported data but not updated since import, but im not sure)
updated by @soaringeagle: 01/24/15 08:36:56PM
im struggling with it
