jonobacon is looking for a plugin to display featured content/topics at the top of a Discourse forum. Ideally, it would showcase three highlighted topics with images, titles, and short descriptions, linking to the respective topics. The plugin would follow a specific category or tag and display the three most recent topics.
jonobacon believes this feature would have numerous benefits, including channeling community members towards critical topics, facilitating discussion, and integrating content into Discourse.
sam expressed concerns about the component’s behavior when clicking on nav items, causing it to move upwards. jonobacon replied that the feature would ideally only be on the front page.
sam shared an example of the component in action on the Ring Community forum and suggested building a system for customizable “home pages” using building blocks, but acknowledged that this would be a significant effort.
I am trying to make it easier to display cornerstone features content at the top of my communities. I wanted to see if something exists that does this.
Essentially, at the top would be three highlighted topics with an image, title, and short description for each. When you click on the Read More button it would take you to that topic. Note: these would be topics, not simply links to a blog ideally.
In a perfect world you would be able to create a category or tag that the plugin would follow and simply show the three most recent topics in that category or tag.
Does anyone know if something like this (or similar exists)?
I think it would have a number of benefits:
Be able to channel community members towards critical topics (e.g. new releases, announcements, tutorials, community member spotlights etc.)
Facilitate additional discussion and responses around targeted topics (especially useful for community that suffer from off-topic discussion.)
Make it easier to integrate content into Discourse and highlight it (e.g. tutorials, howtos, guides, AMAs etc.)
Would love to see thoughts, recommendations, and feedback!
You can see this type of component in action here https://community.ring.com/latest , personally my take on this problem is that we should build a system for “home pages” that people can compose out of building blocks, but that is a mammoth effort.
In the mean time these type of components do work, but the traveling nav issue they introduce is not ideal.
