Highlights

Where: Leaderboard → Highlights

Featured content above the leaderboard table.

What highlights are

A leaderboard is a ranking, and a ranking only ever tells one story: who is ahead. Highlights are where you tell the others — the community total, a milestone reached, a participant worth featuring, a call to join the group chat.

For most participants, position on a leaderboard is not the reason they are in your event. Highlights are how you speak to the rest of them.

Editing

Highlights are edited in a full-screen block editor — the same engine as the page builder. Each highlight is a block tree, so a highlight can be as simple as a line of text or as involved as a small designed panel.

Tokens

A ShortCodes dropdown inserts placeholders that fill in live event data, so a highlight can say the current total without you editing it every week.

Tokens must resolve from real configuration

A token that has no value behind it does not fail loudly — it renders empty, leaving a sentence with a hole in it. Preview the highlight with real data before publishing, and do not write copy that only reads correctly once a number arrives.

Design constraints

The highlight carousel imposes its own presentation, and it will override some of what you set:

• It forces its own dark treatment, so a design built on a light background will not survive.
• It clamps padding, so unusual spacing is normalised.
• Custom style blocks are stripped.

Build within those constraints rather than fighting them. Preview on the real page — the editor is more permissive than the carousel is.

Detection

Highlights can respond to whether the viewer is a participant, and whether they are in a team, so the same slot can say different things to different people.

Use it to keep highlights relevant: a prompt to join a team is wasted on someone already in one, and a non-participant reading participant-only copy is a missed chance to invite them.

How many

Few. A carousel of fifteen is a carousel nobody reaches the end of.

Keep the current ones current — a highlight advertising a deadline that has passed is worse than an empty slot, because it tells participants the event is not being looked after.