# How to show views, and other information in a topic?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-views-and-other-information-in-a-topic/276430>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** topic-map\
**Created:** [August 24, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-views-and-other-information-in-a-topic/276430 "2023-08-24T11:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-views-and-other-information-in-a-topic/276430/2 "2023-08-24T12:04:09Z")

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That’s the Topic Map. It should show up automatically if there’s at least one reply.

There’s an open #Contribute > UX topic suggesting adding it in for topics with no reply as well. It also has a little dev workaround that may be useful to you too:

> [@How to show topic-map on non-commented posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-topic-map-on-non-commented-posts/204222/15):
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> Hello, Now that I saw this topic, I remembered that I had seen [a commit about this](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/19302) before. slightly_smiling_face I think this should work now arrow_down_small Header \<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"\> api.includePostAttributes('topicMap'); \</script\> I’ve also added a little CSS to hide unnecessary stats when no other posts. Common / CSS body:not(.archetype-private\_message) { .topic-post.regular { // if last-of-type is the …

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