The discussion revolves around changing the default homepage in a Discourse instance to the ‘Categories’ tab. JoshDevInit initially asks for help achieving this, and dax suggests re-running the wizard to set the default homepage. However, JoshDevInit encounters an issue with the wizard, which dax attributes to an outdated version and provides a workaround. Meanwhile, silvacarl inquires about modifying an existing setup to change the default view for all users to the ‘Categories’ tab upon login. Benjamin_D provides a solution by adjusting the ‘top menu’ parameter in the site settings, which silvacarl confirms works.
Hi there,
I would like to set the Home Page of my Discourse instance to the ‘Categories’ tab, instead of the ‘Latest’ tab.
I have found some previous topics about allowing users to set their own default category, but haven’t been able to find any advice about how to amend the default home page.
Can anybody help?
Thanks alot.
Josh
The simplest thing to do is re-run the wizard eg, example.com/wizard. You can choose what to use by default for your homepage.
Thanks for this tip, Daniela.
However, I do not seem to be able to click through to the Home Page section of the wizard.
On Step 3 (Introduction - Welcome Topic), the box is blank and will not allow me to continue unless I populate it.
Where on my forum does this text relate to? We have a pinned ‘Welcome’ post so I do not know why this box is blank.
Thanks,
Josh
Are you on the latest version? I’m pretty sure that we already fixed this problem. Try to add a simple dot and continue the wizard. After you can control the welcome topic and delete the dot at the beginning of the topic
Can we modify an existing set up to change all users to category view on login as their default preference?
that would be the top menu parameter https://your.domain/admin/site_settings/category/basic?filter=top%20menu
the first choice is the default view
cool that works for sure!