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

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. [image]

How to bring in Latest topics when using category boxes

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jordantrizz (jordantrizz) December 1, 2023, 10:21pm 20

Were you? Looking to do the same, wondering if there’s something easy or do I need to dive into theme and spend some time.

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