Showcased Categories allows you to add two “Showcased” topic lists (built from your choice of two different categories) to the top of your forum’s home page.
In the theme component settings, you can customize the name of each column, as well as choose which category to pull from, along with the maximum amount of topics from that category you’d like to display.
Settings:
Name
Description
show as sidebar
If enabled, the showcased categories will only be rendered in a sidebar on the latest page.
feed one title
Title for first feed of topics
feed one category
Single category to source topics from
feed one tag
Optionally source topics from multiple tags, can be combined with a category
feed two title
Title for the second feed of topics
feed two category
Single category to source topics from
feed two tag
Optionally source topics from multiple tags, can be combined with a category
max list length
How many topics should appear in the custom lists?
plugin outlet
Advanced setting for additional customization
Translation
Default
showcased_categories.new_post
Post
showcased_categories.view_more
More
Credits
Thanks to @awesomerobot for building out the original structure of this component.
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User customized or group customized. For example, we have different groups for which certain categories are more important than others. Of course, they change according to the group. So, it would be great if the component could be either user customized or at least that the admins could choose which categories to showcase according to group
To have the option for a sidebar instead of upfront, at least in the Latest view would be great.
This is an interesting suggestion . I wonder how we would handle a user who takes part in multiple groups? This could get a bit complicated but I do like the idea.
Ok, so… the sidebar doens’t seem to work out of the box with non-default themes. We have a custom version of the Material Design theme and the featured categories appear above the latest list even in sidebar mode (and it actually breaks the margins layout). I’ll try to check if there’s a way around it.
Jordan, hi, thanks for such a great compoment, but I still have a question, namely, is it possible to make the color of the blue bar customizable? Is there a way to change it in the plugin’s settings or to show the category’s design color?
Hi, Is it possible to make the entire block 2 times smaller in height, so that as a result, 2 times more news would be placed in the block, with the same block size as now.
Thank you.
We have a max of 5 topics to be shown in each list currently. As far as spacing goes though, you should be able to target the css classes in the block to get the desired affect you want.
Sorry, new to theme editing. Does this mean I have to duplicate the component to be able to edit the colors? Is there another way to pull up the HTML/CSS?
Hey guys! The idea with different showcased categories based on group membership is exactly what I am looking for. And when a user is in multiple groups which have showcased categories configured, the TC could go by the primary group of the user.
In my case we have private categories for advertisement clients. We are looking for a way to display their individual category on top of the home page. That way they don’t have to dig through the forum to search for it.
Will try and leave feedback.
