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Question

How can I display only a list of the last n pages modified on a site, e.g., in a sidebar?

Answer

The simple answer is to do a partial include of a "recent changes" page, as in:

(:include Site.AllRecentChanges lines=5:)

Unfortunately, with the author, date, and other information the default format for the recent changes pages is a bit long to display in a sidebar. One solution is to define other recent changes pages that have exactly the format we want. The following can be placed in local/config.php:

    
    $RecentChangesFmt['Site.LastChanged'] = '* [[$Group.$Name]]  ';
    

This says to create and maintain a page called Site.LastChanged that contains a simple bullet list of only the page names of recently changed pages on the site. Note that the two spaces at the end of the format string are required.

The RecentChanges code uses these two spaces to determine

1. that line is formatted by RecentChangesFmt, and
2. where the page-name-specific information ends (for removing the appropriate lines when updating page).

The RecentPages page will only contain those edits that happened after you configured it. So it will be empty until the first edit.

Once this page has been created, one can easily do the following to display the names of the last five recently changed pages on a site:

(:include Site.LastChanged lines=5:)

Notes

I added the line starting "The RecentChanges code" based on a message on the mailing list. menachem January 29, 2005, at 09:40 PM

Question

How do I make RecentChanges actually show AllRecentChanges?

Answer

Add the following to config.php

 if (preg_match('![./]RecentChanges$!', $pagename))
     $DefaultPageTextFmt = '(:include Site.AllRecentChanges:)';

• Note that for this to work you should delete all the existing RecentChanges pages.

Another solution: Redefine in config.php or a specific Group.php:

    $RecentChangesFmt['$Group.RecentChanges'] = '(:include Site.AllRecentChanges:)';

You would not need to delete any pages for this. - HansB

Contributors

• Pm, 2004-12-29

Question

Even though I use the lines=5 option, it gives me a list of all the changes. So the lines option is ignored. How can I fix that?

Answer

To be able to use the lines=5 option, you'll have to use the Markup directive instead of the Wiki directive. Example of the template code:

<!--markup:(:include Site.AllRecentChanges lines=5:)-->

Question

This only lists the first 5 records from RecentChanges... but not the 5 last records !!!! How to fix that?

Answer

This is what I used in mine and seems to work just how you looking for
(:include Site.LastChanged count=-10:) Tearstar? May 03, 2008, at 04:45 PM

See also

• CustomRecentChanges