I was going to build in the NewsPro workflow on our site, but decided to try a w3tnews workaround. With only minor changes and some renaming, we've got a test page working that will allow us to post the top ten news items from any twelve of our dozens of forums. I simply renamed a copy with the proper paths set for each of the forums on our site....and Bud altered the SQL call to allow multiple SSIs.
My next step will be to alter the subscription page to allow members to choose which of the news blocks they want displayed on their version of the frontpage....with the help of a cookie. This is part of the "Integration" ideas I had for the next version of w3t. If this works, we'll make sure Scream gets the info so he can choose whether to integrate it into the distro....we hate to have to try and remember all the little hacks on each distro, so we usually choose to limit our hacks as much as possible.
Here's a link to my test page for this idea....
www.texasoffroad.net/html/index_w3tnews.php ....there's no nested tables yet, so there's no borders and backgrounds, but you get the idea....a few inline .css to keep the fonts under control and it's a very cool idea....
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated....especially for how to add another row of check boxes to the subscription page (probably have to add a new page, huh?) and where/how to alter the call to break out the selected choices and display them on the frontpage rather than send it by email via cron.