I guess there probably is a theme or component that does this. I’d like the list of topics to include at least the start of the topic text, facebook-like (ideally with a button to expand and display the whole topics inline) – or that simply includes the whole topic text directly. I think this will b…

There are a few ways [afbeelding] Topic List Previews (TLP) Theme component This is a Theme Component but has the option to add a complementary plugin. information_source Summary The original Topic Preview component that allows you to add images an…

Tool me a bit but there is also this one that maybe if interest. Lots of CSS options posted in the topic. [afbeelding] Topic Cards Theme component discourse2 Summary Topic Cards restyle the topic list to display as cards with a thumbnail eyeglasses Preview…

I think this theme is quite good: it has both topic excerpts as well as a Facebook-like design: [afbeelding] Fakebook Theme Theme discourse2 Summary Fakebook - I had a little fun with this one to showcase the flexibility of our theming system. This layout migh…

I’ve tried Fakebook but it really doesn’t work out on desktop. It’s also skewed towards publications with visuals imho, which will not be the case for us. I really like the idea but it’s not “polished” enough to be usable for me :-/ Is it worth me giving more specific feedback regarding the issues? …

Topic List Previews is a pretty good match, thanks! Just need to figure out how to get “enough excerpt” to show up, rather than just a few lines.

Review the code on GitHub. If you can identify the lines) of code related you can create a custom component and override it with your code. By adding ! important. The author or another member might provide the snippet your looking for as well.

I think usually the excerpt length is based on the site setting in core. A theme cannot change which data is available. It can request additional data, but doing that for every user on every post shown in the topic list would add a lot of requests. merefield’s plugin adds a separate setting because…

[afbeelding] Moin: I think usually the excerpt length is based on the site setting in core. [afbeelding] Topic List Previews (TLP) Theme component I think the length depends on the Topic excerpt maxlength site setting.

This one maybe after a search.. [Screenshot_20251217-202600]

Is there a way to display topic contents in category view?

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David_Ghost 14 december 2025 om 18:58 2

Hi, you have Topic list excerpt for this

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Topic List Excerpts Theme component official , topic-list-excerpts	20	9022	20 maart 2025
Display in the topics list in homepage also the body topic Support	2	536	1 september 2022
Best way to implement Excerpts in topic list? Feature	1	1140	28 maart 2021
How to show part of the text under the topic head? Support	1	598	26 juli 2022
Topic preview text Support	3	1121	25 maart 2022

Is there a way to display topic contents in category view?

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