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:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-featured-topic-list-to-your-discourse-homepage/132949?u=merefield

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?