# Ability to feature groups on the About page
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** pr-welcome, about-page
**Created:** [September 1, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126 "2018-09-01T00:20:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126/1 "2018-09-01T00:20:49Z")
I think it would be nice to be able to feature certain groups on the [about page](https://meta.discourse.org/about).
It could be used to include groups associated with the forum, for instance a ‘Mentors’ (or Forum Helpers) group. Other groups such as members of core products could also be listed (so on a programming forum, core team members of specific projects that are closely related to the forum - many of these will often have TL4 status enabling them to pin threads, edit posts post news in their dedicated sections, etc).
_Also, closely related to this, TL4 could actually be used as a starting point for Category Moderators (and so again a group worthy of being included in the About page)._
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126/3 "2018-10-30T05:51:28Z")
Instead of some hardcore feature where there is a magic flag on every group and this is database driven, I would far prefer we just sprinkle an outlet or 2 on the about.hbs file and you solve this with a theme component.
At the moment I see no outlets on [discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/about.hbs at ead6600f4b175b95b2028e3e0b8f7b7ede9b84e4 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/ead6600f4b175b95b2028e3e0b8f7b7ede9b84e4/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/about.hbs)
Can you do a visual mockup on what you are after in the context of your forum so we can figure out where to add the outlet?
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126/4 "2018-11-18T03:36:51Z")
Sorry about the delay Sam, here ya go:
(Although there would be different people in each group - though some forums might want to have someone in more than one group).
Edit: Forgot to say, we will need to be able to configure who’s shown in each - for instance, some will be added as moderators but we may not want them _listed_ as a moderator (as they might be a Supervisor or in some cases part of the Helper Team). Some forums might want to do the same with Admins - ie give the user Admin privs but list them as a Supervisor.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126/5 "2018-11-18T23:15:10Z")
Plugin outlets added per:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6aea185ab4bc6f6dcfa77158f5d0e14a69abeeb8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6aea185ab4bc6f6dcfa77158f5d0e14a69abeeb8)
This gives you 2 options:
1. You can create a theme component that inserts a static bit of HTML you take care of updating by hand as you see fit.
2. You can create a plugin that adds information to the serializer and injects the groups dynamically.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126/6 "2018-11-19T23:52:13Z")
Thanks Sam 🙂
When creating/using a theme component for this, can we override **all** of the current groups - so basically just insert HTML for all of that section? I think that might be the easiest option to get it how we need it.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126/7 "2018-11-20T00:08:32Z")
Yes you can hide built in with css
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-feature-groups-on-the-about-page/96126/8 "2020-09-14T08:42:48Z")
Hi @AstonJ @sam
I am willing to give this a shot. is it still available in #pr-welcome?
I am thinking to make a theme component for this which will have 3 component settings
- Select groups to display on About Page
- Select the priority of groups (users of higher priority group won’t be displayed in lower one’s)
- Disable displaying users as per the priority of groups i.e. repetitions of users