Hi! I would like to dislay a brief presentation of my forum on the top of the home page, which is the Categories page. Is it possible in Discourse ? I didn’t found any answer at the moment … Thx!

Thank you @Falco! I found it. In fact, the menu changed, we have to click on “pin topic” then a box is displayed: [image] (Sorry it’s french :sweat_smile:) I think that should be interesting to communicate about this :wink: Bye!

You can use a banner text (Site Settings) or a banner topic for that (wrench icon on the topic).

Sure, you can pin a topic (by admin wrench) and make it like an announcement. Take a look here https://discuss.moe/ to see an example. [image] Falco: You can use a banner text (Site Settings) or a banner topic for that (wrench icon on the topic). The difference is that the users cannot close the banner text, the banner topic can be closed.

[image] New "Banner Topic" pin type Feature One thing we’ve noticed is Discourse sites putting welcome banners up, like this: [image] Technically this site welcome function is covered by the pinned welcome topic [image] But clearly we need something a bit more.. obvious.. for new users, as this is a recurring user-created design element on multiple Discourse sites. We also noted in a random usability test that a new arriving user indeed never found or read the pinned topic, at all. warning We proposing adding a new type of topic…

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poka (Etienne Bouché) August 1, 2016, 12:06am 4

Thank you!
But what’s admin wrench ? Is it a plugin ?
And I don’t find the banner text or banner topic in the Discourse Settings …

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