Topic List Previews (TLP)

Theme component
656

With the latest update to discourse , we are facing the issue of user portfolio feature not working. The button on the user card is gone and the page can’t be accessed.

Is the portfolio functionality deprecated?

657

Not at all, it’s just the usual Discourse core updates occasionally forcing compatibility changes. Fixed here:

If you think Topic List Previews is awesome & I did a great job, you can buy me a coffee :coffee:

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658

Thank you so much, it works again

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659

According to the plugin documentation, the “Topic List Featured Images count” can be set to “unlimited”.
However, in practice, it seems that the number of featured images is limited by the /tag/.json endpoint, which only returns a maximum of 30 topics.

Phenomenon observed:

  • For tags with more than 30 topics, /tag/.json only returns 30 topics.
  • As a result, the Featured Images display is limited to at most 30 images, even though the plugin setting is “unlimited”.
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660

Sounds about right. Silly description but sensible behaviour :slight_smile:

I will change the description to something more suitable.

661

Thanks for clarifying! I understand now that the 30-item limit comes from the /tag/.json endpoint itself.
I was wondering: would it be possible to either

  • display more than 30 featured images (by somehow fetching additional pages of the tag JSON), or
  • if that’s not feasible, still keep the display limited to, say, 10–30 images, but have them chosen randomly from a larger pool of topics (rather than always the same 30)?

I’m not sure whether this is technically possible within the current plugin or Discourse APIs, but I think it could make the display feel more dynamic. What do you think?

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662

It would need to be redesigned so as to successively load each “page” on demand.

PR welcome.

663

hi, i am a newbee here, your plugin is so wonderful and i really enjoy it, but i have a question, is it able to show the more than one thumbnail on one topic? let’s say, the topic contain 4 or more images, and i wish to show all the image on the topic card. tried research some theme component and dive on discourse doc, i can’t really find a good way to extract image from topic, the last option was using dicourse api. Really appreciate if you can help/explain/give some idea

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664

Thanks for your kind words.

Unfortunately at present it is not possible. It leverages core thumbnail code which only allows one to be chosen at a time.

However, at least it lets you choose which thumbnail and doesn’t restrict you to the first post.

It would be significant work to add the option of several thumbnails in part because you would need to pay particular attention to Topic List performance.

I would accept a high quality PR.

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665

Thanks for the swift reply.

U r correct. performance is headache, if using api to get topic.cooked field and extract it.

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666

Hi Rob - I’d love to highlight the OP Author using tiles in TLP for a little project I’m doing.

I’ve worked out that I can hide the other participants with this CSS:

.topic-footer .topic-users .inline a {
    display: none;
}
.topic-footer .topic-users .inline a:first-child {
  display: inline-block; /* Display only the first link/image */
}

However, I can’t work out how to make the OP Author’s avatar thumbnails bigger - certainly I can’t with CSS alone.

Can you suggest anything?

I don’t seem to be able to select thumbnails from posts other than the OP (with the sidecar installed). It would be very helpful sometimes to be able to do so!

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667

I’m afraid I do not have a lot of time atm, but try this:

.tiles-style .topic-users .inline .avatar {
  width: 34px;
  height: 34px;
}

that seems to do the trick on my site …

668

Thanks Rob!

I had already tried that, but unfortunately it gives fuzzy avatars. The problem is that it is pulling the low res (24px) files, and I want it to get the 48px files.

Being a rubbish dev, I can’t see where in your code (if anywhere) I could hack that.