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…

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

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. [изображение] Nate Dhaliwal: The default Horizon theme has this (see try.discourse.org ).

[изображение] 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…

Наш главный экран выглядит совершенно иначе: нет выпадающих меню сверху и т.д.

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Lilly 08.Сентябрь.2025 13:22:28 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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Any existing theme with categories on top as cards? Support	4	901	01.03.2023
How to build a Discourse theme similar to forum.cfx.re? Community Building	2	146	02.06.2025
What Themes are being used for these Discourse forums? Community Building	16	3929	30.09.2024
Can a Discourse theme/template be customised to have this format? UX	4	1576	19.10.2018
Most “traditional” or classic forum Category listing UX	7	2235	15.06.2018

Наш главный экран выглядит совершенно иначе: нет выпадающих меню сверху и т.д.

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