I ended up taking the global announcements block and changing it to look for regular annoucements and it works pretty much the same
not a great setup but it will work for now

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Your Portal Version: 1.0.0RC3 Your phpBB Type: Standard phpBB3 MODs installed: Yes Your knowledge: Advanced Knowledge Description and Message I'm not sure if this is the right forum sorry if it is not We want to add a second news block to our portal. Is there any easy way to go about doing this or ...

bump ;(

this mod is great but it seems to be a little too simple to be as useful as it could be would it be possible to add the poster's name and forum name to this mod? i have tried tinkering with it a bit but had no luck, does anyone have any suggestion? or better yet, has anyone done this on their site a...