Featured topics?

[Biscuit]

Is there a theme or planned feature to spotlight specific topics?

We can pin a topic in a few ways, but is there a theme that promotes certain threads in a sidebar, or header, without needing to code it each time? I’m thinking about something with the ability to either manually or automatically determine which topics are featured, so current “hot topics” can get more focus.

[Johani (Joe)]

You’re probably looking for something like this?

How to add a featured topic list to your Discourse homepage

In this #howto we’ll add a topic list populated by a tag or a category on top of your homepage’s main topic list, like this: [04%20PM] All of the code below can be added to the </head> (head_tag.html) section of your theme. This first part checks which page we’re on, then sets up our topics. For the purpose of this how-to we’re pulling topics tagged featured. If you want to pull topics from another tag or a category you need to change the /tags/featured.json url in here. <script type="text/d…