How do you pull in data from the DB for your theme components?

[justin (Justin DiRose)]

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…

This guide shows how to do this with a specific tag, but you can replicate this approach with any endpoint really.