fairly easy to do.But there is a catch;
b2 loads only 1 featured post by default, not all featured posts.
i dont know if there's a setting to change that.

The posts don't have to be featured, you can use most visited or most commented posts for example.

This is a matter of creating an ItemListLight object with filters. I can help with getting posts from the database. Any volunteers to make a plugin and do Javascript & CSS parts? :roll:

sam2kb wrote:

This is a matter of creating an ItemListLight object with filters. I can help with getting posts from the database. Any volunteers to make a plugin and do Javascript & CSS parts? :roll:

Well, i can help with that.Btw, if we choose to get&show posts from a selected category for example "showcase" category, can we exclude that from the post loop, so that they wouldn't exist twice ?

Not a problem. Just pass a list of IDs to exclude

Latest b2evo news without 4.0.2 release
http://b2evolution.net/news/?pl=-305432

Since there is no easy way to alter MainList filters, we'll have to cheat and declare a fake GET param with IDs to exclude

$_GET['pl'] = '-2,54,7,987';

sam2kb wrote:

Not a problem. Just pass a list of IDs to exclude

Latest b2evo news without 4.0.2 release
http://b2evolution.net/news/?pl=-305432

Since there is no easy way to alter MainList filters, we'll have to cheat and declare a fake GET param with IDs to exclude

$_GET['pl'] = '-2,54,7,987';

I quite didn't get it. where does pl come from ? and how do we use it in a plugin again ?

pl is a GET param, it stands for "post IP list". You can request specific posts by ID

yourblog.tld/index.php?pl=1,2,5,88

You can also exclude some posts from displayed results preceding the pl param with a minus

yourblog.tld/index.php?pl=-5,88

In the above request we exclude posts #5 and #88

You make a plugin (if you want to), and I'll figure out how to get the posts and exclude them (if needed) from the main list.

sam2kb wrote:

You make a plugin (if you want to), and I'll figure out how to get the posts and exclude them (if needed) from the main list.

deal