Today we are going to discuss a pretty cool addition to any Xenforo site. The ability to have a Recent Posts page. Now this is a fairly simple thing to add so we will go ahead and add it to ours. What am I talking about? Well on a normal install you don’t have it like so:

See there isn’t a recent posts link. So how about we add it?

First log into your Admin panel and click appearances and then on the left templates. Like so:

We are looking for Navigation  page. It’s under N’s like so:

Click on it and you will see this page:

So we are looking for the following line:

<li><a href="{xen:link 'watched/threads'}">{xen:phrase watched_threads}</a></li>
    </xen:if>
    <li><a href="{xen:link 'find-new/posts'}" rel="nofollow">{xen:if $visitor.user_id, {xen:phrase new_posts}, {xen:phrase recent_posts}}</a></li>
</xen:hook>

It looks like this:

We are going to insert a new code which I have supplied below between the lines:

</xenf:if> and <li><a href=” 

The code we are adding is as follows:

<xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id}">
        <li><a href="{xen:link find-new/posts, '', 'recent=1'}" rel="nofollow">{xen:phrase recent_posts}</a></li>
    </xen:if>

So once it is all said and done the new code is as follows:

<li><a href="{xen:link 'watched/threads'}">{xen:phrase watched_threads}</a></li>
    </xen:if>
    <xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id}">
        <li><a href="{xen:link find-new/posts, '', 'recent=1'}" rel="nofollow">{xen:phrase recent_posts}</a></li>
    </xen:if>
    <li><a href="{xen:link 'find-new/posts'}" rel="nofollow">{xen:if $visitor.user_id, {xen:phrase new_posts}, {xen:phrase recent_posts}}</a></li>
</xen:hook>

It will look like this:

As always make sure that you click save. Now to make sure that it worked go to your main forum page and you will see this at the top:

When you click on it. It will take you to the Recent Posts page like so:

You have done it!

As always if you have any questions or comment’s please post them below!

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