# Topic Excerpts & AI Gists Button
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-excerpts-ai-gists-button/394885
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** ai, topic-list-excerpts
**Created:** [February 1, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-excerpts-ai-gists-button/394885 "2026-02-01T16:04:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-excerpts-ai-gists-button/394885/1 "2026-02-01T16:04:48Z")
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| ℹ | **Summary** | Combines the Topic List Excerpts and AI summary gists buttons |
| 🛠 | **Repository** | [https://github.com/Lillinator/topic-excerpts-gists-button](https://github.com/Lillinator/topic-excerpts-gists-button) |
| ❓ | **Install Guide** | [How to install a theme or theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-install-a-theme-or-theme-component/63682) |
Install this theme component
> 💡 Note - this theme component assumes you at least have the [Topic List Excerpts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-excerpts/151520) component installed. Enabling [AI summary gists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-gists/340269) is optional, but this component is intended to work with both.
## 👩🏻💻 Overview
This theme component combines the Discourse AI summary gists button, and the Topic List Excerpts button to make the three topic list view options more convenient for users with a one-button solution.
It can also be used without AI summaries for just default compact and excerpts to provide a better UX, since the Topic Lists Excerpts toggle disappears by default in mobile-sized viewport.
The component also includes a new button icon for Topic List Excerpts, a toggle to show or hide the main button labels, as well as options for editing the label texts.
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## ⚙ Settings
| Setting | Description |
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| `Show labels` | Enable or disable the button labels in desktop and tablet viewport sizes. The drop down options always show the labels in desktop. Mobile always just shows icons. |
## 📸 Screenshots
#### Default Admin settings
Administrators can chose to show a text label on desktop, as well as edit the button label strings.
#### User Experience
With default text labels and compact selected.
Topic list excerpts selected.
With `Show_labels` disabled and selecting AI topic summary gists (labels still show on the dropdown buttons on desktop).
#### No AI? No problem!
AI summary gists turned off (`AI_summary_gists_enabled` disabled, or Discourse AI not configured) and only Topic List Excerpts being used. Also some shortened button labels (see text strings in settings).
#### Mobile
Button is default icon-only and menu behaves same as gists button, popping up from the bottom of screen.
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## 💼 Use Cases & Features
- Give your users a more intuitive UX to choose between compact, AI summary gists, and topic excerpts, rather than 2 buttons in different places.
- Improved mobile experience with topic excerpts, since button is always visible.
- Can be used without AI summarizing enabled; if Discourse AI setting `AI_summary_gists_enabled` is disabled (or AI not configured), then gists option will not show on button.
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## 💡 Possible Future Todos
- Category or Group exclusion?
- Move category and tag badges to bottom in topic excerpt cards?
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### 🎵 Note
- This was a collaborative project with @Moin, and she created the Topic List Excerpts icon.
- This component does not work with Horizon excerpts.
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**[Check out my other Discourse stuff](https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=category%3Acustomization%20created-by%3ALilly%20order%3Acreated)**
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### Author:  [@gilles](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gilles)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-excerpts-ai-gists-button/394885/4 "2026-02-01T17:24:27Z")
Thanks Lilly
This is a great component 👍
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-excerpts-ai-gists-button/394885/5 "2026-02-02T15:59:16Z")
thank you! i am glad you find it useful 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-excerpts-ai-gists-button/394885/6 "2026-03-06T19:33:34Z")
I have refactored this component so the button formatting works with the newly [Modernized Foundation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-the-foundation-theme/395331) theme. Still works with the original Foundation too.