Hi folks, I need to create one additional level of categorization for our forum for Code.org . I’d like people to click a category (High School Computer Science), and see a list of our courses (Course 1, Course 2, Course 3), then click Course 1 and see a list of units in the course (Unit 1, Unit 2, …

[image] Mehal_Shah: Then I add a route for something like c/:parent_category/:category/:tag that loads topics in a given category with a given tag. https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/howto/faq/badge works out of the box.

[image] Mehal_Shah: so I’m willing to fork discourse and do some hackery on my own. no no no … don’t do that .. it will end in huge amounts of pain over time, forks always turn out terrible. Strongly recommend you simply use tags here, they already work.

[image] sam: no no no … don’t do that .. it will end in huge amounts of pain over time, forks always turn out terrible. Strongly recommend you simply use tags here, they already work. I agree. It seems like a cool idea to fork a project and make it your own and include all the things you wa…

That’s nice - what I’d want is for that tag to show up in the category view like another topic though.

Sure! Right now, here’s the root of our forum that lists out categories [image] We click on “Exploring Computer Science” to get the Exploring Computer Science - Code.org Professional Learning Community which renders subcategories for each unit [image] When I click into the subcategory for uni…

Adding a category option for sort by topic title would help for this and other use cases as discussed previously . This would allows an easy way to display topics in order based on naming convention, not last edit.

Hacking discourse to create sub-sub categories

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) May 26, 2017, 11:49pm 6

So you want to make the homepage /tags?

Can you mock up what you think this should look like?

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