Hi, I want to pin a “introduce yourself” topic to the Top. Please tell me how can I do that.

You can click on the wrench icon (if you are the admin) the choose Pin Topic [image] Then you can choose to pin this in a specific category (pin topic), or at the top of Latest (pin globally) across the whole community. Alternatively you can make this a Banner Topic for it to appear above the title space across the site until the user has closed it. [image] If you search for these terms on this site you will find more advice and best practice, particularly for Banner Topics

Hi, I want to pin the topic to the top category, so that it’s the first on the list of top topics. Is it possible? Thanks for help!

I’m not sure what you’re asking, I don’t know what you mean by “top category”. There is “top” as in visual position and there is “Top” as in the topic list page of “most bestest” topics as determined by an algorithm. If you are referring to the Top topic list page, AFAIK, there is currently no way to game the algorithm (unless maybe a plugin could do it). You could however make a topic a Banner and it would display at the top “visually”. If you did not want the Banner to display on pages other than the Top page, I believe that should be easy enough to do with some custom CSS

A banner pin would be the only way? But that would be ‘global’

Yes. That’s why I mentioned using CSS so it wouldn’t be displayed globally. I’m guessing that what is wanted is for the Top topic list page to be similar to the Category topic list pages. i.e. the topic lists will have pinned topics at the beginning of the lists until they are unpinned. Perhaps a feature could be to have all Pinned topics display first in the lists but I’m not sure how dealing with the different time frames would fit into it. And depending on how many Pinned topics there were, it could effectively negate some of the usefulness of the Top page. Maybe a better approach would be to have a “Pinned Topics” page?

Hi, I’m asking if you can pin the topic to the top list (like the list below), [18] because I would like to have one particular topic to be the first on this list, is it possible? I don’t want to use the banner on all pages. Thanks for help!

It seems to me that having a Pinned that isn’t “top” on its own merits is in contradiction of what the Top page is. [image] Daria: I don’t want to use the banner on all pages. If you want to promote a topic on the Top page, I think a Banner topic is the best way. As I posted previously, if you don’t want to have it on other pages it should be easy enough to do with CSS. Have you looked into using CSS and found it to not be possible with the currently existing selectors?

One major reason would be pinned topics that are immediately locked - # of replies is a big contributor to Top topics, as well as likes-on-replies. I think it kind of makes sense.

Can moderators pin topics, or is it just admins ?

How can I manually pin a topic to the "Top"

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 31, 2018, 8:40pm 7

There is a search term that returns all pinned topics:

in:pinned

Topic		Replies	Views
Is it possible to pin a topic so it also appears in 'top'? Feature	2	927	October 16, 2014
How to Pin a Category or Its Topics to the Top of the Topic List? Product Support	1	253	May 15, 2025
Pin topic to top of Categories view Product Support	1	627	June 28, 2020
Topic on top of categories page Product Support	2	762	November 17, 2017
Category-specific message or pinned topic Product Support	9	1472	February 20, 2020

How can I manually pin a topic to the "Top"

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