Homepage plugin for displaying recent topics, latest members, popular threads, and similar elements

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Here are a variety of theme components that do homepage customizing things. If you can’t find what you are looking for, you can always fork the component and make your own. I have never see a latest members thing, but there is a who’s online plugin. The latest members are listed in the users link in your navigation menu.

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…

Custom Homepage for Groups

Overview When installed and added to the active theme, this theme component enables you to control the ‘homepage’, allowing it to be different from the set of pages Discourse allows by default, as well as having different groups have different “homepages” (e.g., group members care only or mostly about a particular category). This can be for all users, anon (non-logged in), mobile users, or according to a user’s primary group. Initially developed by @pfaffman. See User-specific Discourse home pag…

Homepage Feature

Summary Homepage Feature features up to 3 topics with images on your community’s homepage. Preview Preview on theme-creator.discourse.org Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-homepage-feature-component New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component [Screen Shot 2020-03-13 at 5.06.59 PM] By default the theme will feature the 3 most recent topics ta…

Topic List Previews Theme Component

This is now a Theme Component but has the option to add a complementary plugin. [GitHub-Mark-32px] Repository: get the code here: https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-tc-topic-list-previews Install guide: Install a theme or theme component Install this theme component This can be complemented with the ‘sidecar plugin’: https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-topic-previews-sidecar to add the following features: ‘actions’ (bookmarking, linking and liking from Topic List) Thumbnail P…

Featured Tiles

Summary Featured Tiles adds a row of featured tiles above topic lists. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-featured-tiles New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component [Screenshot 2020-07-03 at 09.44.37] On hover, the topic title and author will be shown: [Screenshot 2020-07-03 at 09.43.52] There are lots of options available for selecting the topic source.…

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Also: Here are some resources for learning your own custom development