There are lots of options available for selecting the topic source. Images can be fetched by tag, by category or by using a ātop topicsā time period. Images can be scoped to the currently viewed category, or come from the entire site.
A setting is added to the user interface preferences which allows users to hide the banner on the current device.
Settings
Name
Descriptions
featured category
The category containing featured topics. Set to 0 for all categories. āScope to categoryā will override this setting.
featured tags
The tag which contains the featured topics. This must be publicly visible.
topic source
Which algorithm should be used to pick topics
top period
The time period used when ātopic_sourceā is set to ātopā
randomize topics
Randomize the selection and ordering of topics
display when unfiltered
Display on the unfiltered latest page
display on categories
Display on category pages
display categories
Display the tiles when viewing these categories. Blank for all categories
maximum topic count
The maximum number of topics to display
scope to category
Filter topics to the current category
display mobile
Display on mobile devices
Translation
Default
preference_header
Featured Topics Banner
preference_description
Show featured topics banner on this device
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With this configuration, the tiles should appear in all category pages right? My featured tag is ādestacadoā, however tiles do not show in the category page.
No itās not the same. The āFeatured Tiles Theme Componentā in this topic is officially maintained by the Discourse team, and it only provides what you see in the screenshot. āTopic List Previewsā is a third-party plugin and/or theme with a different design and featureset.
Is there a way to have it only pull from topics with photos/images? Otherwise it seems pretty discordant when there is a row of empty grey boxes and an occasional photo.
Thanks for the link. Looking at the site, the problem is that the images are portrait. So we are constraining a 3072x4608 image into a 200x200 square, which makes it 133x200. Then weāre āfillingā a 222x150 box with it. So weāre displaying an image 133 pixels wide into something 222 pixels wide.
One solution here is to stop āfillingā the banner with the image, and āfitā it instead. Thatās the approach we take in the topic list thumbnails:
Adding a new setting to the theme component for this would be pr-welcome if someone would like to work on it.
This looks great, I like that the tiles donāt overwhelm the UI. I had a couple questions about configuring it.
I havenāt been able to get the featured tiles to appear on my category pages - only the homepage. My configuration is below (with my category names blacked out since we donāt want to share those right now). Anything Iām missing here?
My second question - is there a way to set default images to use for the tiles, as opposed to ones pulled from the topics? Weāre often going to have topics to feature that donāt have images, but still want it to look nice. If thereās not a built-in way currently, would that mean modifying the CSS or JS?
Is there a specific image type (.jpg, .png, .tiff) that this works with? Images not showing up from 2 of 3 topics which I tagged, though the topic itself shows up.
Agree. Still wondering if there is a work around to searching the entire topic for an image to use if one is there? Or will it ONLY take from the first post?
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