We have a new-ish community and don’t want to build out too much structure - so we have a scenario where we have a Cat and Sub-cat.
I need to highlight / feature content on the main category page - but can only see ways to do it on the sub-category page.
I’ve looked at Curated content, all the ‘featured’ moderator tags - but they seem to only apply to sub-category pages.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Best answer by timcavey
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Hi
From my experience it’s not possible to have topics featured on the parent category page (that’s what you’re referring to as a category). The mod tags featured_home gets topics featured on the homepage, and featured_subforum gets topics featured on the category (what you’re referring to as a sub-category) page.
I’m happy to be corrected on that, as I think getting parent category featured topics would be great!
hey
I was hoping maybe there was a way through custom CSS?
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I’m not sure Custom CSS is the solution here, and it’s actually worth noting that you can’t post forum threads in Parent Categories anyway (only the Sub-Categories!). Since it’s more likely that members would be looking at the Sub Categories, it’s probably more useful to put featured topics at this level and at the home page.
However, I do like the idea and I can sense Tim does. I can also say that as a user, I have a different viewpoint from all the community moderators and managers who gather here (and me liking ideas is often a good sign!). Would you be happy to post an Idea for this? I’d be happy to upvote it, so please do check out https://community.insided.com/ideas . You never know, you could get lucky.
Hi
Yep I am aware that the Parent Categories are really just pages not containers and don’t ‘hold’ any content. Because of this I find the lack of customization options to be frustratingly limiting. I’d like more ability to set the user experience and add elements like calls to action, highlights, a more clear direction to the page, etc.
Just the tiles to navigate to the sub-categories isn’t sufficient in experience. Its also been forcing us to name out sub-categories in a way that makes it more obvious to “click here” - the content in one level deeper! :)
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