I’ve been building my first Discourse community over the past couple weeks. It is amazing software and a lot to take in. Compared to the meta.Discourse.org layout, ours is very different and I can’t figure out what I’m missing. Here’s a shot from meta.Discourse.org , taken just now. [shot of meta…

[afbeelding] RichardTE: No top menu dropdowns, like Categories & Tags. I suspect that is your theme. The default Horizon theme has this (see try.discourse.org ). [afbeelding] RichardTE: And if there’s a way to switch between various main screen layouts, can individual Categories have thei…

thx @NateDhaliwal will check out what you said. I’m using redditish themes, dark & light, so may have to change. Pity because I was enjoying the look, but not so much the layout.

I wrote the post last night. This morning I opened up meta.Discourse.org (this forum) and the layout looked the same as our own Discourse site. This confused me until I realized that I had meta set to the redditish theme, same as on our own! Lesson here is that for first-timers like me, and others,…

like Nate said, you can also have a look and try the features at try.discourse.org too. Good luck. [afbeelding] Nate Dhaliwal: The default Horizon theme has this (see try.discourse.org ).

[afbeelding] RichardTE: Lesson here is that for first-timers like me, and others, if you are experiencing layout issues, check out this here meta.Discourse.org forum You can also disable the customization by themes in your forum with safe mode

Thanks for the feedback. This forum has another good resource page for themes, a visual gallery of more than 20 Discourse themes, each of which links out to demo and Github pages: Theme - Discourse Meta Several are identified as “Official“ themes — “maintained by the Discourse team”. These could b…

Ons hoofdscherm ziet er heel anders uit zonder dropdowns in het bovenste menu, enz.

Ondersteuning

Lilly (Lillian ) 8 september 2025 om 13:22 5

like Nate said, you can also have a look and try the features at try.discourse.org too. Good luck.

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Ons hoofdscherm ziet er heel anders uit zonder dropdowns in het bovenste menu, enz.

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