New to Discourse community platform. I want to learn as an admin how can I reply within a post under a topic? For an example, there is an intro yourself post. That post has already been pinned. I added my intro under that “Intro post.” I want to pin my response so everyone can see, so they don’t need to scroll all the way to the bottom. Any tips? I can’t see to find ‘pin’ under my admin wrench. Thank you for helping out newbie.

@cathyjliu here you go :slight_smile: i made quite a few screenshots to help guide you and i broke it down into a 2-step process step 1: Moving the first post to a new topic and inserting your own post below click the topic wrench at top right of the topic you want move (this is the top post introduction you are going put yours underneatth). then “select posts” [IMG_3578] select just the top post (the one you want to insert your post under) and then select the red “move to” button: [IMG_3567] you will get this pop up screen. make sure “New Topic” is selected at the top and then enter a new topic title in the New Topic Title box (you can always go back and rename it later when this is all done). select the category you want to move it to, which will probably be the same one. then click the red “Move to New Topic” Button at the bottom: [IMG_3570] you will now go to a new topic with just that post: [IMG_3571] now you can insert your own post by simply posting a reply to that original post. i also colored my reply in this example with staff color so you could see it better after we finish. [IMG_3572] Step 2: Moving the reply posts from the original topic to the new one now once you have posted your own introduction post - remember the name of this new topic, and now go back to the old topic (it should still be in the category topic list. click the admin wrench at the top right corner again then “select posts”. [IMG_3573] this time click the “select+below” button that is on the next post (reply) to the original one you moved. this will select all the replies. then click the “move to” button: [IMG_3574] you will get the move pop up screen again. but this time select “Existing Topic” at the top, and then the title of the new topic in the Search field and you will get the new topic in the list to select to move to. make sure the “preserve chronological order after merging” is NOT checked! (:warning: important). click the “Move to Existing Topic” button at the botton. [IMG_3575] you will now be taken to the new topic you created with your introduction post inserted under the original one and the rest of the replies under it: [IMG_3576] now you can go find the old topic and delete it and also rename the new one if you wish. you have completed a very messy move method of post insertion. i hope his helps. let me know if you have any questions. :slight_smile:

Welcome @cathyjliu! :discourse: :wave: If I understand you correctly you’d like to pin a post within a topic. At the moment, this is not possible by default. I’d imagine that you would need a custom plugin. An alternative way to make a post stand out is to ‘Add Staff Colour’ [image] This is found on the :wrench: icon under a post along side like, bookmark etc Although it does not ‘pin’ the post it makes it more visible.

Appreciated the tip! How do I get custom plugin? Meanwhile, I like your workaround of adding staff color. Thank you!

[이미지] Cathy Liu: How do I get custom plugin If you have the knowledge you can create it yourself. Or else you will have to create a topic in #marketplace

thank you for the info; will bookmark it and see if I have the resource or bandwidth to figure it out!

[이미지] Cathy Liu: I want to pin my response so everyone can see, so they don’t need to scroll all the way to the bottom. What happens is that when they go to the topic they will go to the first post that they have not seen, so they won’t need to scroll to your post if it’s the first one that they have not yet seen.

I assume you meant the user will click on the ‘last reply’. I can see that after I read your post… then found that last reply button… IMHO… that functionality isn’t intuitive for me.

hi @cathyjliu welcome to Meta :slight_smile: this request confuses me because pinning puts topic posts (first posts) at the top of category topic list pages. the idea of pinning a post to me means it’s going to show up at the top of category pages for users. users can also unpin posts. if you mean to pin it as a banner do you really want your post at the top of every page? pinning doesn’t do anything within in a topic. [IMG_3546] i feel like either staff color (or maybe even a staff notice with a link to a post?) is the way to accomplish what it sounds like you are wanting to achieve.

i think he means that when a person enters a topic, they automatically go to the first post they have not read yet. it does not always go to the top post if they have already been in the topic. i use staff color, staff notices and pinned topics a lot on my forum. i cannot see how pinning will do what it seems you want. are you wanting to pin a post to the top of a topic so it appears over the original post? or just under it? or do you mean pin it so that every time a user enters the topic it goes to your post? from the sounds of what your goal is, my advice would be to have a separate introduction topic for staff only.

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the confusion, but I will try to explain it. The intro post has already been pinned under the topic. It is a long post with near 40 replies. I want my reply (the one I introduced myself) to be pinned right under the original post. Does that make sense now?

what do you mean by pinned? do you mean the first post (original post)? pinning refers to making a topic post go to the top of a topic list page for users regardless of if it’s got the latest activity. this is a pinned topic post (the first post in the topic). you can see the pin icon beside the topic title. pinning it puts it at the top of that category’s list of topics until the user unpins it, then it will fall down the list normally like an unpinned topic. [IMG_3547] it sounds like you simply want to insert your post under the original post and you are using the term “pin” to mean insert under the first post. the topic (original) post is not pinned, it is simply the first post in the topic. this is not possible to do in Discourse and i’m not even sure if it can be done with a plugin. but like @pfaffman says, this is somewhat counter-intuitive to how Discourse displays topics to users who enter the topic more than once. if they read the first post already (and any replies) putting your post there means they will not see it. it may also be that there is translation language issue here and i am reading pinned while you are actually saying something else perhaps, like “sticky” or “insert”. like i said earlier, my advice would be to simply make another introduction topic for Staff only in the same category. you can even put a staff notice over the top post in the introduction topic with a link to the staff introduction page. [IMG_3549]

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ondrej 6월 21, 2023, 8:19오후 4

지식이 있으시다면 직접 만들 수 있습니다. 그렇지 않다면 #marketplace에 주제를 생성해야 합니다.

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