Hello, We use Discourse as Q&A website and i found the wordpress theme below which the idea behind its design is awesome [image] see how the list is in middle and 2 sidebars… my question is how to achieve something like this in discourse ?

My first step would be to use the search function . See how far you get with that then follow-up if there are any specifics you can’t figure out.

Take a look at the post A native sidebar system

Nothing helpful :disappointed_relieved:

There’s nothing out of the box that will let you do this with zero customization; it would definitely require a plugin + custom configuration. But as others have mentioned, you have some options that may provide a good starting point! These plugins for example both look very promising: …

We did this, and this is quite simple for one site, but our approach proved difficult to repeat further. [Toxu] [2] In any case, you may have to work with the file: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/discovery.hbs We used to use plugi…

[image] bts: If you’ve installed and tested these plugins and are having problems, I’m sure folks could help further. But just replying “nothing helpful” in fact i tested these plugins before not working the way i want to go with here in this post, i said not helpful i meant the search result…

Gotcha, no worries! Didn’t realize you’d tested various plugins already. More a general point that it can be hard to give more detailed suggestions without knowing exactly what you’re trying to do and where you’re getting stuck. Good luck!

Am not good with coding so you can say i cant start it anyway. all is i want to achieve is having 2 sidebars. And the way my friend Stranik is suggesting is a little bit difficult… so your help is much appreciated.

The difficulty is not to make another 2 columns, if static html code will be placed there. [06f868474ecd79063ddb30aff876a206f04a23e4] And the fact that these columns contain dynamic (changing) content. Which is very individual from the desire, and accordingly from site to site. One person wants …

Jay, Imho the best solution to this is to use the Custom Layouts plugin and add your own custom widgets. The former takes care of most of the heavy layout lifting and neatly isolates you from the main Discourse elements and protects you from core upgrades to a large extent. Given you don’t appear…

How to make 2 sidebars and the topic list in the middle?

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Jay91 (Jay Abie) March 1, 2019, 3:00pm 4

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