Personalized Editors’ Picks

Introduction

The Editors’ Picks section highlights curated content selected by your editorial team, while still adapting to each reader.

This approach combines the human touch of curation with the power of personalization, making it a great fit for the homepage, category landing pages, or even email campaigns.

Scenario Setup

In the Recombee Admin UI, navigate to the Scenarios section and select Create Scenario.

1. Enter a Scenario ID, such as "editors-picks"
2. Choose Recommendation type – Items to User

Logic

The Logic defines the behavior of the recommendation engine.

Select the news:editors-picks Logic from the News models to return the articles picked by the editors.

The list of articles is provided via the picks parameter: the editorial team can either pick the list of items directly in the Recombee Admin UI or if you export the list from a CMS, you can set it via API when calling the recommendation request.

Using the excludeAlreadyRead parameter you can either allow or filter out the articles the user has already read.

By default, the picked articles are re-ordered per user. You can disable this by setting the personalizedReordering parameter to false.

Requesting Recommendations

1. No-Code Widget – create a No-Code Widget using the visual editor in the Admin UI to embed the Editors’ Picks section without writing code.
2. Widget SDKs – use the SDK for a Carousel, Grid, or Feed to display the recommendations in the design of your choice. Use the Recommend Items to User endpoint and specify the editors-picks scenario when initializing the widget.
3. API SDK – request the Recommend Items to User endpoint of the Recombee API using an SDK of your choice and specify the editors-picks scenario.