just noticed this, in the homepage the like count shows for the whole of topic instead of the first post, is this the usual behaviour or a bug possibly by the tweaks I have made in my forum. [The image shows a social media post with text saying '3 hours later: 0 syllabus covered, but we know everyone's love li…', along with six likes and one comment, after a non-profit character icon. (Captioned by AI)]

Which theme or component are you using? It’s probably related to that. Correct me if I’m wrong, but IIRC the like column shows the total number of likes for the topic.

[image] NateDhaliwal: Which theme or component are you using? It’s probably related to that. No, these numbers are serialized to the Topic List, something that can only be controlled by the back-end or a plugin that has access to it.

It’s a custom one, and just had a view it’s not being handled by the theme.

I think I confused myself there. I had some idea of the likes count for the whole topic, but the part I wrote was referring to the like count being shown on that post (which, I assume, is the topic post). My bad on that one!

Why does the like count show for the entire topic?

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merefield (Robert) June 21, 2025, 10:38am 6

Yeah, it’s part of the normal Topic List serialisation, and iirc it is a count of all the likes:

Topic		Replies	Views
Topic-map-summary only shows the likes of the first post Bug	4	1256	April 6, 2016
Show likes on topics lists and categories - Redditish theme Product Support	8	386	July 27, 2026
Liked and like_count attribute on Topic is misleading Feature	0	475	September 22, 2019
Show hearts icon from categories view on each topic Product Support	3	922	August 12, 2020
`showOpLikes` doesn't work right away, but after clicking back and forth Product Support	6	920	March 7, 2020

Why does the like count show for the entire topic?

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