@julian Thank you for replying. I am thinking of a small hack in that case. Let me know if this will work. What if I create a custom route and use a modified version of the original topic.tpl as its template?


var controllers = require('./lib/controllers'),
plugin = {};

plugin.init = function(params, callback) {
	var router = params.router;
	var middleware = params.middleware;

  // Define the function that renders the custom route.
	function render(req, res, next) {

		// Get data object corresponding to the specific topic. The topic ID is fixed.
		var data;

		// This is the path to your template without the .tpl, relative to the templates directory in plugin.json
		var template = 'my-custom-page'

		// Send the page to the user.
		res.render(template, data);
	}

	// This actually creates the routes, you need two routes for every page.
	// The first parameter is the actual path to your page.
	router.get('/my-custom-page', middleware.buildHeader, render);
	router.get('/api/my-custom-page', render);
  
	callback();
};

module.exports = plugin;

'data' needs to be filled with information about a specific topic. If this is possible, then how can I get the data object corresponding to a particular topic in the render function? Is there some function that can take a topic id as input and just return 'data'?

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