Thank you for this component and for the update that assigns the new topic to the currently-viewed category.
Would you consider adding an additional theme setting to set a title attribute for the button?
Use case: Many of our users are not familiar with the concept of a peer to peer support model, and have expressed frustration at not knowing how to ask a question in our Community. They say they do not understand what “New Topic” means when all they want to do is ask a question. I’ve renamed this global instance of the button “Ask a question” but also like to title it with a friendly explanation that you’re publicly asking other users.
I have added the title manually, but have to add it again after each update. I can continue to do so, but thought I’d ask just in case this would also be useful to others.
Hi. We have a tremendous number of users who come in from search engines. Is there a way that the button could detect the category of the topic, even if the user hadn’t visited the category?
FYI, we pushed the button yesterday and it was our 2nd biggest day in registrations for the past 30 days. Not sure if it was coincidence or not, but I have a feeling it’s a good way to onboard new users. Will keep an eye on the metrics
(Realizing now it must have been a coincidence, because the button only appears for users who have already logged in. Nonetheless, activity does seem to be higher)
Hm, how about showing the new topic button for everyone and make it act like the default Reply-to-topic button, i.e. as the user to login/sign up if they’re not logged in?
In fact, this might be something to consider for the default new topic button too, but I guess this feature would be most effective in this theme component…
Well, they can’t create that topic unless they sign up. And encouraging people to sign up is obviously a good thing (and is being done by default via the sign-up button and the reply-to-topic button). So I don’t really see why the new topic button should cause any problems.
Hey, I noticed i believe a padding problem with the topic button on mobile (or when the window is shrinked). This is experienced on Android and iOS, on Chrome and Safari.
EDIT: I believe this is caused because that extra padding is space reserved for text to go alongside the plus icon. The problem is that reserved padding doesn’t go away when you choose to not have any text.