There are lots of options available for selecting the topic source. Images can be fetched by tag, by category or by using a ‘top topics’ 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.
With this configuration, the tiles should appear in all category pages right? My featured tag is “destacado”, however tiles do not show in the category page.
No it’s not the same. The “Featured Tiles Theme Component” in this topic is officially maintained by the Discourse team, and it only provides what you see in the screenshot. “Topic List Previews” 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 we’re ‘filling’ a 222x150 box with it. So we’re displaying an image 133 pixels wide into something 222 pixels wide.
One solution here is to stop ‘filling’ the banner with the image, and ‘fit’ it instead. That’s 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 don’t overwhelm the UI. I had a couple questions about configuring it.
I haven’t 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 don’t want to share those right now). Anything I’m 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? We’re often going to have topics to feature that don’t have images, but still want it to look nice. If there’s 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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