We are looking for a way to have messages on a category that would not only appear on the category “home” page, but also at the top of all topics within that category. Is there currently a way to achieve this? We have created some pinned topics, but, of course, those only appear on the category home…

[תמונה] chrismalone: at the top of all topics within that category Not sure what’s the issue here, could you please elaborate? When you category pin a topic, it appears at the top of all the topics in that category.

[תמונה] Thomas_G: When you category pin a topic, it appears at the top of all the topics in that category. I think he means at the top of each topic page of that category (at the top of the topic page, /t/.../[topic_id], and not only at the category page, /c/.../[category_id]), if I understoo…

Like a banner pinned to the top of every topic in a specific category. :wink:

I second the desire for this. Essentially, the ability to get a message across to everyone trafficking in a specific category.

Yes. This is what I am trying to achieve. Every topic page within specific category or sub-category. @JimPas - is this possible now that you know of?

You could achieve this with a custom theme component. There is no built in way in Discourse to do this.

Thanks @eviltrout ! Any examples you could point me to? If not, I’ll play around with it and see if I can figure it out. I appreciate the input!!

I’m not familiar with the code of the plugin, but I know this one does a lot of similar customizations: [תמונה] Topic List Previews (legacy) Plugin This is now a Theme Component, the plugin is deprecated The new Topic is Topic List Previews Theme Compone…

A mock-up would be beneficial. Topic List Previews can put a series images at the top of a Category with associated text excerpts called Featured Images. You tag the Topics you wish to highlight there. When a user hovers over an image they will see the excerpt text from the Topic. If the Topics …

Category-specific message or pinned topic

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eviltrout (Robin Ward) 20 בפברואר,‏ 2020,‏ 2:49pm 10

I’m not familiar with the code of the plugin, but I know this one does a lot of similar customizations:

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Category-specific message or pinned topic

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