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FAQ:View Only English Forums, RSS link to English Forums, Ignore Certain forums

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:49 am
by bluesaze
Q:  How do I ignore certain forums while viewing Unread Posts?
For eample - I want to see only the English language Unread Posts.

A:  Make yourself a URL link which pulls results from only the forums which you want to read.

An example to view only English language Unread Posts.
The board numbers are the English language boards, Intenational boards are not listed.
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?actio ... 75,177,178

Note:
Updated On Oct 17th 2005


Q:  How do I check the board number of a forum?

A:  Look at the board URL
The Announcements Discussions forum URL is http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,9.0.html.
This means 9 is the number of that particular board.

Update-------------------

Q:  How do I Get the list of English only Posts in the RSS Link?

A:  Make yourself a RSS URL link which pulls results from only the forums which you want to read.

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board ... ction,.xml

Re: FAQ: Ignore Certain forums while Viewing Unread Posts

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:56 am
by gsbe
bluesaze wrote:A:  Make yourself a URL link which pulls results from only the forums which you want to read.

An example to view only English language Unread Posts.
The board numbers are the English language boards, Intenational boards are not listed.
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?actio ... 52,153,156


Here's an example of a working RSS link for English language only boards using your settings:

http://forum.opensourcematters.org/inde ... ction,.xml

FAQ:View Only English Forums, RSS link to English Forums, Ignore Certain forums

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:01 pm
by bluesaze
gsbe wrote:Here's an example of a working RSS link for English language only boards using your settings:
http://forum.opensourcematters.org/inde ... ction,.xml

THis does not work I get only the list of posts from " Joomla Sites - Feedback/Information"

FAQ:View Only English Forums, RSS link to English Forums, Ignore Certain forums

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:17 am
by bluesaze
Hello there The RSS LInk Now works Thanks to [Unknow] (yeah thats is a Username ) who pointed out that it has to be boards not board. I have updated the FAQ

Cheers
Jacob

Re: FAQ:View Only English Forums, RSS link to English Forums, Ignore Certain for

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:37 pm
by hcgtv
Thanks to bluesaze for finding a solution to this situation.

Here's an updated url with board numbers for only the English language boards:

Code: Select all

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?action=unread;boards=8,9,372,479,32,35,36,267,296,34,465,42,309,123,268,428,429,430,432,431,470,471,472,473,474,466,467,468,469,404,480,485,433,483,236,46,306,342,345,343,344,452,475,476,477,478,153,156,265,58,359,48,487,262,406,152,364,7,126,127,198,304,231,199,397,398,286,47,177,178,38,175,356,371,11,326,353,303,62,60,381,426,434


The board numbers are in the order of how they are displayed on the main page, remove what you want, etc.