Credits: The functional design is based on the Featured Tiles component. @Ahmed_Gagan extended functionality to allow more than one tag for featuring topics.
Honestly, I would love a theme-component like this, but for trending topics (that kind of functionality would probably require a plugin though).
Maybe it could be implemented much more easily once Discourse works on the “hot” category topic sorting option in version 2.9?
As for the option to show a tag in a featured card, how does it handle a topic with multiple tags? Do tags even show up on featured cards in the mobile view?
Card content is the same on mobile and desktop, just on mobile the cards wrap the content and don’t have a set height. If you have multiple featured tags on the same topic, cards will show the tag that is shown first on the default tag list. I believe this is by alphabetical order.
Regards trending topics, you can pick the list algorithm just as on the Featured Tiles component. Right now these algorithms include latest and various top selections:
How would trending be different from top-daily or top-weekly? In any case, when there’s a new sorting and filter algorithm in Discourse core, as the “hot” one mentioned, it should work on the component as well.
This component is just showing one row of cards on desktop. And as many cards as you like in one column on mobile (there’s a maximum topic count setting).
Showing more rows on desktop is easily possible if you write custom CSS for the component. But that’s not a use case I will support with the component as such, as I believe it will need a custom layout anyways.
Okay I see… you just made me change my wording I’ve written feed twice, but I changed it to column. The goal of this component is to feature specific selected topics. I don’t doubt you could also make it work more like a dynamic feed. But if that’s your goal, I’d rather just style the existing list views to get there. You know, just use a component like Topic List Previews or Topic List Thumbnails and style the list items more like cards. Working directly on the lists is all integrated with navigational elements and filters on Discourse. You won’t get that with this component.
Yeah, true. I’m just trying to look at all the options I have at my disposal. This topic was posted just as I was browsing Discourse Meta, so it ended up catching my attention.
Hmm, I only get his look when I de-select all contents
Did you try different browsers? If it’s not a browser issue (and if it is, please let me know your setup) I could inspect the CSS on your site. But you’d need to share your url, here on on a pm.
What’d be great is, if you could have a “pinned” featured topic (i.e. the “Welcome to this Forum” topic), that is always shown, even if topics are randomly chosen from #featured. I think that would be really awesome, not just for my use case but also many others. Could that be implemented?
Looks like you use a tag that’s not visible to regular users?
You can hide tags from showing on the cards through the component settings. But the tag itself has to be visible to the group that should see the tagged topic as a featured card.
Thanks for the suggestion @diabolicvincent! Though I guess I won’t implement this as a feature. One reason is that (as mentioned on the credits), I didn’t program the logic of this component. It’s quite complex already for my taste and I don’t want to mess with it myself.
More generally, philosophically, conceptually… I actually believe it’s better ui design when official content is easily distinguishable from user-generated one. In that regard I’m already not a fan of pinning topics within an otherwise dynamic list of user topics.
Credits: The functional design is based on the Featured Tiles component. @Ahmed_Gagan extended functionality to allow more than one tag for featuring topics.
I’ve written feed twice, but I changed it to column. The goal of this component is to feature specific selected topics. I don’t doubt you could also make it work more like a dynamic feed. But if that’s your goal, I’d rather just style the existing list views to get there. You know, just use a component like 
I actually believe it’s better ui design when official content is easily distinguishable from user-generated one. In that regard I’m already not a fan of pinning topics within an otherwise dynamic list of user topics.