The first request you can do now by simply adding a call to the correct template display function to your SP theme template  for displaying topics (spTopicView.php). This would take the form of:

sp_TopicIndexViewCount('tagClass=spInRowCount', __sp('Views'));

Where the ‘Views’ is the label that will be used.

The second request would require us to put in some coding support – and it is not a bad idea to define a custom icon for this. I will open a ticket for it sp we can discuss it here. In the meantime there is a CSS class defined for the locked topic row – literally the class of .spLockedTopic – so you could at least use that – perhaps to change the background colour for example.

Many thanks.

On my (theme) spTopicView.php file
on line 86 there is this code line:

sp_SectionStart(‘tagClass=spTopicViewSection’, ‘topic’);

soon after that line I included your suggested code:

sp_TopicIndexViewCount(‘tagClass=spInRowCount’, __sp(‘Views’));

Yes I can see the views: xx number but it will include the reading on the middle of the main topic heading
but I was hoping to include it just below the main Topic’s  Name header.

I even tried to remove the div class like this:
sp_TopicIndexViewCount(”, __sp(‘Views’));

But didn’t make any difference

Your help is much appreciated

Well – the display function for the topic name is sp_TopicHeaderName() so try it underneath that…?

Yellow Swordfish said
Well – the display function for the topic name is sp_TopicHeaderName() so try it underneath that…?

I tried in different line but no joy.
But I found the solutions  in the css file, all the center and right column are with horizontal centred position.

I changed the position by replacing with left code.
And now the view centre is just below the topic header.

Many thanks

Don’t forget – As always we recommend that you create your own SP theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update. (http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/)