Hi Guys, Just setting up a new forum, looking to add a directory of businesses/services? Any ideas?

Jay has a really good idea. If it is a set number of businesses there is a variety of options from Page Publishing. To a variety of Theme components like A variety of header menu options. Header Submenus [image] Custom Header Links (icons) Theme component discourse2 Summary Custom Header Links (icons) will allow you to easily add linked icons to the Discourse header. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-icon-header-links open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features Screenshots Desktop [Capture3] Mobile [Capture] Settings This component includes a … [image] Custom Header Links (icons) Theme component discourse2 Summary Custom Header Links (icons) will allow you to easily add linked icons to the Discourse header. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-icon-header-links open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features Screenshots Desktop [Capture3] Mobile [Capture] Settings This component includes a … [image] Brand Header Theme component discourse2 Summary Brand Header adds an extra top header for branding with your logo, navigation links, and social icons for both mobile and desktop views. Brand logo can be an image or text. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-brand-header open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features Desktop preview: … There are more possible options in #theme-component Link Banners [image] Welcome Link Banner Theme component discourse2 Summary Welcome Link Banner is a simple banner that allows you to add custom text and 1-4 links. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-welcome-link-banner open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features [Welcome Link Banner] Settings This component comes with a variety of settings! Name De… There are more possible options in #theme-component Easy Responsive footer [image] Easy Responsive Footer Theme component discourse2 Summary Easy Responsive Footer will allow you to build a fully-responsive footer using nothing but plain text. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-easy-footer open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features Desktop [1] Mobile [2] Settings Name Description heading Text for the head… And likely a whole lot more. It is Discourse of course. :discourse:

[image] Keval Gohil: looking to add a directory of businesses/services? Any ideas? Maybe think of it in terms of what aspect of Discourse (technically, what model in the Discourse database) comes closest to representing the key elements of a business. None of these seem to fit: post topic tag category I think a ‘group’ is a good match for a business. Discourse groups have fields for: name description owners members an (optional) badge that can be used to distinguish group members an (optional) email domain that can be used to automatically add users to the group an (optional) incoming email address that can be used to message the group on the forum via email permissions (that can be used to manage category permissions, etc) Those fields seem to map to the aspects of a business that you might want to represent on a forum. Discourse also has a “groups directory” and individual group pages. I suspect that the groups directory could become your business directory with little to no custom work. Obviously, this all depends on your specific use case. If businesses are not a key part of your forum, you might want to take a different approach.

Interesting idea. If you need to be able to have users be members of the businesses and know a priori what they are so that an admin can add them, this is a test idea. If you just want a list of these businesses, using a category, perhaps with a template, may be what you want to do. This way anyone could contribute new businesses. But you’d not be able for people to join the business.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Interesting idea. It would be a great idea if it was possible to create “custom group types”: [image] That would give you a business directory at https://forum.example.com/g?type=business Without that feature, it could work well if businesses were the primary focus of the forum - so the groups page would essentially become a business directory.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 17, 2023, 12:09am 2

Maybe create a category for them and allow people to create topics for each business?

Maybe use tags for services?

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How to add a directory of people/businesses to my theme?

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