I searched and searched and could not find the definition of a “featured topic”. In particular, I am wondering how the featured topics are selected for the category view when you have “Categories with featured topics” selected for the desktop category page view.

I think it used “featured” because it will show pinned topics that haven’t been unpinned (manually or automatically through reading).

Thanks for the explanation. Is there any way to select what topics (some or all) are displayed in the category list? Sometimes there are topics that I need to be highlighted and it would a nice way making sure they are noticed. -N

[image] Falco: it will show pinned topics that haven’t been unpinned (manually or automatically through reading). Could you expand on the definition/logic of Featured Topics. I am trying to ‘shape’ what posts will appear on my homepage on day 1 (these have been seeded by the admins). The fe…

Jeff and Falco detailed the rules above. We’ll first show pinned topics (if there are any for that user), then we show the topics with the most recent replies. There isn’t a good method to curate this, unless you pin a bunch of topics for each category.

OK, so the distinction between ‘Categories with Featured Topics’ and ‘Categories with Latest Topics’ is that Featured will include Pinned topics? Or are these two configurations doing the same thing just with different format? Would be nice if there was means to directly sequence the topics in th…

[image] ChristopherMcEwan: OK, so the distinction between ‘Categories with Featured Topics’ and ‘Categories with Latest Topics’ is that Featured will include Pinned topics? No First, note that the option is ‘Categories and Latest Topics’, not “with”. Categories and Latest Topics is what we h…

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 9, 2018, 4:29pm 2

The last (n) topics with latest replies. I agree the text describing this is not great, maybe we should change it to “with recent topics”.

Topic		Replies	Views
Subcategory List Style: Rows with `featured` topics should be `latest` topics UX	5	579	December 1, 2022
Don't show pinned topics as 'latest' in category view Feature	6	2282	March 12, 2015
Recent posts of pinned topic don't show inside category Support	3	636	November 25, 2022
API call for Featured Topics Support rest-api	1	90	April 3, 2026
My categories page doesn't look like meta.discourse.org Support	4	708	August 22, 2019

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