One of the easiest ways to showcase the best content in your community is the Best Of feature. Members of your community vote on the best content, as do your moderation team and staff. You and your staff also have the ability to personally curate the Best Of page through the use of the Promote reaction, which will update the page consistently as new posts are added. If your community is geared towards showing off your users’ best work, you can even make it your community homepage.
🛑 IMPORTANT: This feature has been moved to the Maintenance stage (as described in
https://support.higherlogic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041785171
). It will remain available to customers who are using it, but it will not receive any further development work. Higher Logic recommends using the following alternatives:
How to set up the Best Of page
Best Of is a feature associated to the Reactions addon, and the Best Of page will be available in your community when that addon is enabled.
You will also want to take a look at the Advanced Settings for the Reactions addon. This is where you can modify how Best Of is displayed and control how many points it takes to get on the Best Of page. Points are awarded when a member selects a reaction, so you can raise or lower the threshold for content to be displayed on the Best Of page.
Changing the Promote Threshold will control how many points are required for a post to display on the Best Of page. By default, it will require 5 points.
To start, the Best Of page will be blank. Once content is voted on, your Best Of page will start to be populated.
Best Of page example
Access the Best Of page
To access the Best Of page, click the Best Of quick link from the Discussions or Categories pages.
Layout Options
Use the Best Of Style option to control how the content on the page is displayed.
- The default Best of Style is Tiles, which will display as a Masonry layout (example shown above).
- If you choose List, the Best Of posts will be displayed one after the other as a list, with an image to the left and an excerpt to the right.
Best Of page content organization
Content is organized on the Best Of page according to the reaction it has received. These reactions are displayed at the top of the page, as you see below.
📝 NOTE: The reaction buttons you see will depend on which reactions you have enabled for your community (on the Dashboard > Settings > Forum > Reactions page).
- Click these reaction buttons to view only content associated to that reaction. For example, content that has received the Like reaction will display when clicking Like at the top of the page.
Promoted content
To show Promoted content, you must enable the Promote reaction (on the Dashboard > Settings > Forum > Reactions page). This ensures Admins and Moderators have the ability to promote the best posts in the community to the Best Of page.
Set up Curate permissions
The Promote reaction, which adds 5 points to a posts score rather than the default 1 point, is normally reserved for Administrators or Moderators. For these users to have the reaction available to them, you need to ensure they have the Garden.Curation.Manage permission.
You can add this permission, by going to Membership > Roles & Permissions in your Dashboard. From there, edit a Role and check the Curation box in the Garden section, under Manage.
✔️ TIP: To learn how to access and manage your Roles and permissions, check out the article below:
Set the Best Of page as your Homepage
You can set your Homepage to the Best Of page (Trending) from the Layout tab in your Vanilla Dashboard. This gives the option to have the Best Of page to welcome new users to your community.
FAQ
Will only discussions show on the Best Of page?
Any content that has received the minimum points necessary will appear on the Best Of page, this will include; discussions, comments as well as questions, answers and polls if enabled.
How do I remove content from the Best Of page?
Content will need to be deleted to be removed from the Best Of page.
How is content sorted on the Best Of page and can we change this?
Content is sorted by date from when it has crossed the threshold (minimum points needed). We do not have the ability to customize the order.
Can I remove the Best of page from the navigation and side panel?
Yes, you can remove the Best Of page by add the following CSS to a Pocket;
.Reactions-BestOf,.Navigation-link.BestOf{display: none!important; }
