Keeping a news item on display...

[theMusicMan]

Hi All

I appreciate one can set the number of news items to display in both summary and newsbits modules... but how would I go about keeping the top most item in my news forum on display on the Portal page.

So, if I had 3 news items being displayed thus...

News Item 1
News Item 2
News Item 3

when I added News Item 4 to the news fourm, the portal would display...

News item 1
news Item 3
News Item 4

Is this possible...? I guess I would need to edit both the news.php module and the templates displaying the output from that php page to include the 1st News item outside of the sql loop that checks for 'n' of news items to display, as well as add 1 to the start count...??

I am not a coder or programmer but have I got the gist of this..? Is this right...?

[hoser]

Found this (http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2139), it may help.

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[theMusicMan]

That's OK but uses Stickies. I have several stickies in my news forum but want a n ordinary particular news item to be displayed in first position on the portal.

If I did this, I realise I could achieve it by only having 1 stickie, but this isn't wnat I was after. Thanks for posting tho!