The purpose: keep the topic list pretty much “vanilla”, but improves the visibility of “gallery” topics (topics that are made for people to post their pictures, with few discussion) and have a glance at the newly posted pictures without having to open the topic.
For someone who almost never had an in-depth look at components and even less in plugins, based on Topic List Thumbnails and Topic List Previews (TLP), and how hard would it be to have a
similar component/plugin with these only features?
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if a topic has a particular tag, let’s say #gallery, 5 thumbnails (or less, based on the last uploaded images from the topic) are generated and displayed under the topic’s title.
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to make thing simples, adding a tag to an existing topic wouldn’t generate thumbnails based on existing posts. Only new images from the next posts would then create thumbnails.
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removing the tag would remove the thumbnails from the topic list, but maybe keep them stored somewhere so they’ll be displayed again if we add the tag again?
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As the the component/plugin options, there would be:
- Tag slug or id to be considered as a gallery
- Number of maximum thumbnails to display under the topic’s title in the topic list
The result would be like this, with maybe a link on each image that leads to the corresponding post from which the thumbnails are (no lightbox on click):
