Is it possible to have a sticky text box at top of a category? Something similar to the info box provided by discourse that contains the text “Create at least 5 public topics and 30 public posts to get discussion started. New users cannot earn trust levels unless there’s content for them to read. This message appears only to staff.”?

Sounds like you’re talking about a pin-up banner

thanks @davemaxwell that’s exactly what I was looking for!

AFAIK banner topics are only global across the entire site, and don’t work per-category, though.

In that case you want to pin a topic to the category.

@codinghorror aargh, you’re right. pinned banners are global. missed that in my first test. It would be cool to have that per category though.

We do have category pins. Select it from the wrench menu.

We find that people ignore the pinned category topics. I think having a category specific banner topic would be really helpful. Maybe if a banner topic is uncategorized it would be global, and if it is in a category it would only show on pages in that are part of that category.

If you set a category image/logo the category description (first paragraph of About topic) shows up in large text next to the logo. That might be sufficient for what you are looking for? Have you seen that feature? It’s found under Edit > Images on the category page. I was looking for the same thing, Pinned Category Banner - but the logo image will work as well. Of course you end up with an image/logo that you have to come up with / live with…

This is an old topic but it came out top of the search list for ‘category headers’. This might help… [image] Discourse Category Headers theme component Theme component This theme component provides a number of enhancements for the Discourse category header. The ‘standard’ Discourse category header is displayed at the top of each category page, above the navigation links and list of topics. It is normally only visible if a category logo image has been uploaded in the category settings. The header displays the logo and a short description of the category, taken from the first paragraph of the ‘About the.. category’ topic. This theme component provides the foll… Better late than never :blush:

Text info box in category header

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 1, 2018, 12:17am 9

You will find that people ignore the banner as well. People are very good at ignoring things

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Welcome / About Message on a Category Page Product Support	8	1927	September 28, 2015
Category-specific message or pinned topic Product Support	9	1472	February 20, 2020
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Category-specific banner? Feature	1	948	November 13, 2015
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Text info box in category header

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