I have one topic in our discourse with a direct link to a thread on our Discord with the same topic - see attached picture. How do I do that to other topics? we have no idea who did it (I’m the only admin) [image]

Hello and welcome @Dan_Carfas :slight_smile: Just as a smidge of extra info, that’s known as the ‘featured link’ and can be toggled on/off sitewide via the topic featured link enabled admin setting. It is also possible to set it after the fact with a little edit dance, which can be useful for those without server access or who aren’t comfortable using the rails console: [image]Can I add featured links after I create a topic? As mentioned here How to add link to topic title? you can’t add a link after the topic was created, but I have a workaround that may work for you: Edit the whole topic, not only the tile, by clicking the :pencil2:button at the bottom of the topic: [Screen Shot 2021-06-18 at 20.01.40] Then you have to remove the content of the topic (copy and paste it somewhere safe), replace the title with the link. You will see how the link is loaded in the title, and the onebox appears in the topic composer. After that, you can paste the topic content again. It’s basically “creating” the topic again, since links in titles can only be added during creation.

Be aware that once you have pasted the link in the title input, the link can’t be edited or added later, unless you do it via the rails console. This is how I added a link on the automatically generated “about” topic here, for example: https://unicyclist.com/c/other-languages/francais/41

And just because it is always good to keep things together, even searching is not the worst option :wink: If using rails is not any bigger issue: [image] Set or update a featured topic link via the rails console Sysadmins You can set or update a featured link on a topic by using the rails console. From your server, enter the rails console from your Discourse folder: ./launcher enter app rails c You can then use the @nathank’s form to generate your command: Topic.where(id: =topic_id=).update(featured_link: "=featured_link=") Copy-paste the generated command inside your rails console and press Enter. It will set or update the featured link accordingly. information_source Example of the raw syntax for …

Wow, there’s a guide about that! Awesome :sparkles: I legit completely forgot it :sweat_smile: thanks @Jagster! :+1:

How do I add a featured link to a topic title?

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piffy January 12, 2023, 4:04pm 2

When you are first creating the topic, if you paste a URL into the blank title box it will create this topic link

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How do I add a featured link to a topic title?

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