How to make the recommanded topics collection

[merefield (Robert)]

I think a mockup would be helpful, but here’s a guide that might be of interest:

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…

There’s also a featured carousel of images in Topic List Previews which includes topics if you tag them with the set tag.

On tag visibility look at this:

Is there a way to create a tag visible to mods only?

I’d like to create hidden collections of topics for internal use, then run queries in data explorer with using these collections. For this to happen, I’ll need internal use only tags, which are not visible to the public. Is it possible in Discourse?