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 ## DKAN Featured Topics
 
 Adds features topics content pane for the front page as well as a menu item and drop-down.
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+This is a deprecated repo. Topics have been merged into DKAN core as of version 7.x-1.12. Find more info about Topics in the [featured topics module](https://github.com/NuCivic/dkan/tree/7fd4c1fd25752421a281407cf66aeb5b4343eb22/modules/dkan/dkan_featured_topics) and read more about topics in the user documentation on our blog.