how can I list topics in a category?

[googolplexking]

I want to list topics in a category on a custom page. I want the title, author, data and content to be showed. I basically want all the announcements on the front page. Is there a easy to do this without making a plugin or something?

[agarcia17]

most likely you'll need a plugin but it shouldn't be a hard task. I would love to work on this but would need some pointers

[yariplus]

You'll need a plugin. Do you want a custom page, or a category as your homepage? They're done differently.

[agarcia17]

@yariplus since category as homepage is coming in the next release, thanks to you :), what steps would i have to take in order to have the api also return the main content for each topic in that category?

[yariplus]

@agarcia17 said:

@yariplus since category as homepage is coming in the next release, thanks to you :), what steps would i have to take in order to have the api also return the main content for each topic in that category?

The change is transparent to the api, a call to yourdomain.com/api will return the category data along with the topics summary, the exact same data you would get if you called yourdomain.com/api/category/1/categoryname

[agarcia17]

@yariplus right but what if I would want yourdomain.com/api/category/1/categoryname to not only return a list of topics but also the mainPid's content of each topic?

[yariplus]

@agarcia17 afaik, there is no way to do that with a single call. It does give you the mainPids, so you could do another call to api/post/pid

[baris]

If you change the teaser post to first in the ACP it will return the content of the first post instead of last.

[agarcia17]

@baris awesome! i didnt notice there was an setting for that! thanks! I will give that a try later on today or tomorrow, but since its only a teaser i will probably need to make a modification on the 'teaser' function to have it return the full post instead, correct?

[baris]

The returned teaser has the below data so you might not need to change anything.

 "teaser": {
     "_key": "post:38335",
     "pid": 38335,
     "uid": 2962,
     "tid": 6400,
     "content": "<p><a class=\"plugin-mentions-a\" href=\"https://community.nodebb.org/user/baris\">@baris</a> awesome! i didnt notice there was an setting for that! thanks! I will give that a try later on today or tomorrow, but since its only a teaser i will probably need to make a modification on the 'teaser' function to have it return the full post instead, correct?</p>\n",
     "timestamp": "2015-09-21T17:37:45.565Z",
     "user": {
         "_key": "user:2962",
         "userslug": "agarcia17",
         "picture": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3839aee901d7adc05ac204b75074989d?size=128&default=mm&rating=pg",
         "username": "agarcia17",
         "uid": 2962
      },
      "index": 9
 }

[agarcia17]

@baris ohh i see! thanks a bunch!