I’d like to add to the search page the number of likes and views a topic has received. The json in https://site.com/search.json?q=whatever has the number of likes in the posts and for topics includes likes and views. I think it should be “easy” to pull that data out of the json payload and display it, but it’s still not easy for me.

I believe the data is inside the posts model and there is a outlet for each result, so maybe you can get around it using this: [image] Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides Discourse includes hundreds of Plugin Outlets which can be used to inject new content or replace existing contend in the Discourse UI. ‘Outlet arguments’ are made available so that content can be customized based on the context. Choosing an outlet To find the name of a plugin outlet, search Discourse core for “ . These allow you…

Can you please mock up what this would look like?

No. I’m really bad at that. Here is instead some hand waving. The the right of the title (“Discourse backup vs DO backup”, below) there would also be the number of likes and/or views the topic has gotten. [image]

The hand waving is the easy part unfortunately.

What I was asking for more generally, is how to pull a field out of the json load and display it. Do I need javascript to access the number of likes that’s in the json load for the page?

By the way, the likes are displayed when you order by likes.

Aha! That’s helpful, though for some reason the likes are not showing on that site when I sort by likes. They do here, though. I don’t see any CSS changes there. [image] codinghorror: Can you please mock up what this would look like? It’d look like this: [image] And the number of views might be to the right of the :heart: like views: 123. Edit: but you’d not have to sort by likes to make it show up.

Add likes and views to search display

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) May 31, 2017, 5:13pm 9

Thanks, @falco. That’s what I was looking for. I’ll leave it to my client to implement it if he wants.

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