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Just a general comment about the usefulness of this module, its great, been using it for years and studying spider reactions/activity closely reveals that search engines respond well to adding tags to posts, when you combine this module with the Cumulus Congestus module and also tie it in with the Downloads Module keywords feature well its just gravy, I might add that tying it to the other modules is fairly simple... there's also a great hack I picked up years ago on the SMF Support site that displays the board name in the Tags main menu list

Thanks for the reply

The original request was for a block of randomly chosen items to display, I now have this working beautifully in Simple Portal block, it only requires one small edit in addition to a minor change to to the block code, as follows:

In Sources/Downloads2.php add the section circled in green to the snippet of code shown located in the Downloads_MainPageBlock() function:




After that make this minor change to the portal block code, shown in its entirety here:
global $boardurl, $modSettings;
$modSettings['down_url'] = $boardurl . '/downloads/';

global $sourcedir;

require_once($sourcedir . '/Downloads2.php');

Downloads_MainPageBlock(null, 'random');

Enjoy... I also have some custom modifications to the SMF Statistics Page that relates to various modules and SMF features, visit my site and have a look at the ones for this module, although my version of Downloads Pro is out of date, everything I've customized works great!!