Is it possible to make a sidebar slider with the latest news from the tag “news” with a picture, a title and a short description?
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The discussion revolves around creating a sidebar slider displaying news from the “news” tag, featuring images, titles, and short descriptions. fuchs initiates the query, and Lilly explains that while it’s not a core feature, it might be achievable via a custom plugin or theme component. Canapin suggests exploring existing plugins like the News Plugin and Layouts Plugin. Lilly references the Category Sidebars topic for potential insights. merefield confirms it’s feasible, pointing to the Topic List Previews theme component with Featured Images, which already supports tag filtering and could be adapted. Lilly acknowledges the relevance of merefield’s suggestion. merefield also mentions a similar solution from @awesomerobot. fuchs thanks everyone for the help. Jonathan5 notes a similar implementation on mixedmartialarts.com, though without images.
hi @fuchs 
welcome to Meta 
this is not a core feature and i have not seen a plugin or component that would do similar. however, i suspect such a thing may be possible with a custom plugin or theme component. depending on your current navigation sidebar menu setup, it may clutter up the menu from a visual and functional perspective. i would suggest perhaps one of the existing banner or topic preview components would be better options to accomplish what you are asking.
Welcome on meta, fuchs 
Basically, it would be a crossover of News Plugin 📰 and Layouts Plugin ?
I don’t know if such a thing is achievable with existing (third-party) plugins. Might be worth having a look.
there is also this Topic List Sidebars which shows a topic sidebar in topic list views. it might provide some clues to developing something similar for the existing sidebar?
It’s entirely possible but is somewhat of a re-build
Funnily enough there’s a solution very close this on already on Topic List Previews called Featured Images, but it sits above the Topic List not at the side. It even allows you to filter by a particular tag.
So I think you now have all the open source you need to make this a reality 
(you can probably just move that to a Layouts widget and change the CSS slightly and badabing! 
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aha that’s the one i was trying to think of earlier. i knew i’d see a topic preview component that was similar to this.
There’s also this one from @awesomerobot Homepage Feature that is similar (but slightly different) from TLP.
Thanks a lot for the help! I will try!
There’s something along these lines on https://forums.mixedmartialarts.com/, though without pictures.