You can promote articles in a section to draw attention to them. When you promote an article, it moves to the top of the articles list within its section and has a star beside it.
Promoted articles always appear at the top of the section, regardless of the sorting option chosen. Promoted articles might also appear by default on the home page, depending on your theme.
To promote an article
- Navigate to the article, then click Edit article in the top menu
bar.
- If the Article settings panel is not displayed in the sidebar, click
the Article settings icon (
) to expand the panel.
- Click the Placement card to expand the Placement panel, then scroll down to the Labels section.
- Click Promote article.
- Click Update settings.
17 comments
Christopher Boerger
Hey it would be great to be able to bulk edit all articles and add or remove the promote article option.
weird that you cannot act on all article settings when bulk editing.
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Вячеслав Скорбеж
Hi, any plans to add top of the articles list to Support SDK for iOS/Android?
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Cheeny Aban
Hi Slava Skorbezh,
Thank you for leaving feedback on our Community. I've marked this comment as Product Feedback. We truly value customer feedback and your voice and votes in the product feedback topics in the community help influence future Zendesk functionality.
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Soo Hian Foo
Hi Jennifer Rowe ,
thanks for sharing about promoting articles for Guide (help center).
We would like to show our most popular articles based on the highest number of page views, in our header dropdown and some sections in our Guide web pages.
Is there a way to automate it instead of manual promotion? Like a template?
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Soo Hian Foo
Hi @...
Can you help re: this:
We would like to show our most popular articles based on the highest number of page views, in our header dropdown and some sections in our Guide web pages.
Is there a way to automate it instead of manual promotion?
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Вячеслав Скорбеж
+1 to Soo Hian Foo comment. It'd be great to have such a feature
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Rebeca
+2 to Soo Hian Foo request
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Rebeca
An additional question, it is mentioned above, "Promoted articles might also appear by default on the home page, depending on your theme." how to know which theme would enable this? it would be extremely helpful to have this on the help center, thanks
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Christine
We have an existing thread with recommendations from Team Diziana on this community post.
Hope this helps!
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Christina hernandez
How can you change the Promote star icon to something else? Thanks!
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Christine
You can change the icon that appears before the article title, however, you will need to make some advanced customization on the theme code. Please be advised that our team is unable to provide support for custom coding, you may reach out to your Developers or IT team for guidance on how to tweak the theme code.
Sharing with you this response I found on this post from Team Diziana (they're third-party Developers, and provide assistance with theme customizations) the answers on the post might give you an idea of where to make changes to the code.
Thanks!
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Zoe Goble
I've added the promote functionality and my promoted articles appear on my homepage which is great. What I've noticed is that my side navigation is showing the promoted articles at the top of the menu, confusing the order in which the articles should be read.
Is there a way to have the promoted articles displayed on the homepage but for it not to impact the order anywhere else? This is quite a big problem for our workflows.
I also have another question regarding the star that's meant to appear next to the article; this doesn't show in my help centers - any idea as to why not?
Thanks
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Syd Stahler
I also have the same question as Zoe!
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Vlad
Zoe Goble Syd Stahler
just working on my client's help center and found it IS possible to sort articles by position, regardless if some of them are promoted articles or not. You can do that using ZD's API sort option (sort by position). More details:
https://developer.zendesk.com/api-reference/help_center/help-center-api/articles/#sorting
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Zoe Goble
Hi, I'm a Product Writer, not a Developer/Engineer, so I don't have much technical knowledge. Is this straightforward to implement, or do I need to seek technical support?
Thanks.
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Vlad
Yes, frontend dev would be needed.
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Anne-Flore Caire
Hello Vlad
I have the same need as Zoe.
Without being a developer, I can find and use examples of html code to achieve what I want to do.
Isn't there a way of forcing the order of pages by position by adding a sort_by="position" in the base code? I can't do it on the #if or #each section.articles but maybe I'm just not writing it right.
If this really isn't possible, I don't understand how calling the API from our own Zendesk Help Centre works. Can we add a call to the API in the code of an hbs page? Do you have a dedicated documentation page?
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