Do you want to add a bit of a competitive spirit to your community? If you haven't already noticed, you can find a points leaderboard on the activity page. Points are accumulated by getting positive reactions from others and earning badges from various activities. But what if you wanted to have a leaderboard across your site?

All you need to do is add the following code right after {asset name="Panel"} in your theme:

{if !InSection ("ActivityList")}
{module name="LeaderBoardModule" SlotType="w"}
{/if}


The SlotType refers as used here refers to "weekly" leaders. The other options are 'd' for daily, 'm' for monthly, and 'a' for all-time. Once added, this is what will appear in your sidebar:

Pro Tip: You can filter points to specific Categories, if you select to do so in the category options and you use CategoryID in your code (i.e. {module name="LeaderBoardModule" SlotType="w" CategoryID="7"}).

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