Global Banner Topic Phun

Product Support
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I had this nice conversation that I wanted to pin globally as a banner. However, I wanted to edit the first post so the pin is inviting. As I’m a smartass, I decided to create a ‘Site Banners’ category under /c/staff, visible to Everyone. Then I proceeded to create a topic and hit ‘Banner this topic’.

Whew, nice, it worked! Er…

But then, I had a link to that banner topic appearing at the end of the original conversation… So I decided to close the banner topic so that people would simply come back to the original discussion, and…

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Yes, I could reply to a closed topic… Not what I expected.

Hacking It Anyway

So, I proceeded to move all posts from the original topic to the banner topic, gave the first post (the banner) to the original poster, and it was as if I had inserted the banner post before the existing topic. Sort of.

Questions

  • Isn’t replying to a closed topic a bug – even if it’s a banner?
  • Is there a marker for staff to edit the first post of an existing topic, e.g., before -- on its own line, to insert the banner text?
  • Is that something you would like to do (inserting a ‘banner post’ for an existing topic)?
  • How’s your way of dealing with this issue?
2

Admins can reply to closed topics (they can do anything :sunglasses:). But not others.

3

Ah, good call :slight_smile: So I could have saved myself some worry… But it remains that there’s no straightforward way to edit a first post for banner without ‘stealing’ it from the original poster.

4

Which link? Do you mean ‘Edit this banner’ link? It will display only for admins

Admins can edit any topic or post. No need to steal ownership.

5

As the banner topic mentioned a link to the original topic, the original topic had a link to the banner topic at the end.

But the entire post is used for the banner, so if you want to edit the post, you need to remove the original content, which is not what is intended. Unless there is some marker to separate the banner from the rest of the post?

6

The New "Banner Topic" pin type topic seems to say the first post in its entirety is taken as the banner.

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결국 배너를 위해 다른 전략을 선택했는데, 이 방법은 여러분이 자신의 포럼에도 적용해 볼 수 있습니다:

  1. 배너를 게시할 전용 주제를 만듭니다. 어떤 카테고리든 상관없습니다. 저는 보통 #staff 카테고리를 사용하는 것을 선호합니다.
  2. 나중에 쉽게 찾을 수 있도록 주제에 #banner 태그를 붙입니다.
  3. 짧은 글을 쓰거나, 제 경우처럼 픽셀 크기 627x123인 이미지를 생성합니다(이렇게 하면 스크롤바가 표시되지 않고 대부분의 상황에서 깔끔하게 보입니다). 그리고 해당 이미지를 원하는 주제나 링크(예: 특정 링크)로 연결하는 앵커로 사용합니다. 예시:
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이 방법을 사용하면 기존 주제에 손을 대지 않고도 허용 가능한 형식에 맞는 배너 모음을 유지할 수 있습니다.