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# Topics

Topics allow you to divide your content into logical groupings. For example, if your site caters to Cooks and Musicians, it would be logical that there would be a topic called "Cooks" and a topic called "Musicians". This permits the user to focus on the topic of their choice, so that, for example, a musician doesn't have to know what's going on in the kitchen.

- Current Active Topics: This section displays the icons and names of the currently defined Topics available on your site. To edit a Topic, click the icon of the topic you wish to edit to be taken to the Edit Topic screen.

- Edit Topic: You may Add, Edit, or Delete topic information from this screen.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: If you DELETE the Topic, ALL the News articles and comments under the Topic will be deleted as well. However, the topic icon will NOT be deleted from images/topics -- that must be done manually.

- Add a new topic: To add a new topic, fill out the following fields and click "Add topic".

  - Topic name: This is the database name of the topic. It is not displayed to users, and has a limit of 20 characters and NO spaces are allowed (example: "cooking").

  - Topic text: This is free-form alphanumeric text describing the topic, with a limit of 40 characters (example: "Kitchen Happenings").

  - Topic image: This is the name and extension of the graphic image to be used to designate this topic. Keep it small -- usually 40x40 or 60x60, however, there is no system limitation on the size. The file must be in images/topics (example: "cooking.gif").

## Topics -> Topics Configuration

- Topics images path: This field specifies the location of the topic image files. Entry example: "images/topics".

- Number of topics icons displayed per row: This field determines how many topics are displayed in a row, both on the Topics Administration screen (that Admins see) and the Topics screen (that users see). Select the size that works best for your site. Entry example: "5".

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