Hi Guys, Our HR team have decided to go with category boxes instead of a category list as below. [categories] However, they also would like the latest topics to appear at the bottom of the categories as seen in revoluts community page [Revolut] I am struggling to work out how this can be done…

Try to work with components You can use: categories-and-latest-topics In this mode, there is a connection and categories and recent topics. <script type='text/x-handlebars' data-template-name='components/categories-and-latest-topics'> <div class='column categories'> {{categories-only categorie…

Another option is to simply structure your category directly https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto

Then just change the css, which is even easier. )

[image] codinghorror: structure your category directly Ideally I would prefer to do it like you have suggested, however, there isnt a way to display categories in a grid layout and have the latest topics below. :frowning_face:

I suggest building a static header customization if your categories do not change much. Then you could have whatever layout you like above the topic list.

I’ve built this or something similar for a few sites at this point. If you put this in the </head> section of your theme it will put all the categories on top of your home page (and /latest assuming that it’s the same as your homepage) Then all you’ll need is add the CSS to structure this layout ho…

[image] It looks very nice. How I can to add Font Awesome 5 instead of images? Many thanks!

Hello, Thank you for this code snippet! I am working on a project where I need to do some things on this principle (not necessarily categories) and I would like to put this directly in the plugin that I develop. I know where to put the template handlebars, but I can not find the folder / file wher…

I love this idea! Looking forward to test such a theme component or plugin

How to bring in Latest topics when using category boxes

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Frank_Johnette (Frank Johnette) September 10, 2021, 11:59pm 12

Is there an update to this? I’m getting an error from the script not being able to get the category names. Nothing is changing on the page.

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