# Show who's the topic's author, optional, per-category, with custom title

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-whos-the-topics-author-optional-per-category-with-custom-title/48673
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** theme-welcome
**Created:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2016,‏ 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-whos-the-topics-author-optional-per-category-with-custom-title/48673 "2016-08-15T19:51:53Z")
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### Author: ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2016,‏ 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-whos-the-topics-author-optional-per-category-with-custom-title/48673/1 "2016-08-15T19:51:53Z")

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I have a category where goat-farmers create their personal pages (= topics) about their farms. Those topics quickly become 300+ messages and engage comparatively many participants.

For this category only, I’d like to specify a “topic owner title” that would appear next to their nickname.

It is important that the title is customizable and activable individually per category. Fot instance, I eould only use this feature with a few catefories, and make a different topic author title in each of the categories.

Pther examples:

- question author
- tutorial author
- poll author
- wikipage moderator (so called moderator, actually the owner of a huge wiki-page)
- review author
- farm owner
- car seller
- organization representative

An optional (and separate) setting might be a checkbox saying “highlight topic author”, which would also highlight author’s avatar in some way.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט,‏ 2017,‏ 12:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-whos-the-topics-author-optional-per-category-with-custom-title/48673/2 "2017-08-10T00:40:04Z")

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> [@meglio](#):
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> setting might be a checkbox saying “highlight topic author”, which would also highlight author’s avatar in some way.

I could have _sworn_ we have a CSS class on the post that indicates “this is the topic creator” for subsequent posts in the topic, I checked the HTML via f12 and ah yes there it is:

```plaintext
<div class="topic-post clearfix topic-owner regular">
<article id="post_3" data-post-id="177932" data-user-id="17648" class="boxed onscreen-post" style="">

```

Target the `<div>` with the class of `topic-owner` and you can make those posts stand out.
