How to add description to Categories

[mgostore]

how can add the description en categories, like here:

[NateDhaliwal]

That is the content of the topic ‘About the xxx caregory’, which is automatically made when you make a category.
This topic may help:

Create a category in Discourse

This guide describes how to create a category in Discourse. Required user level: Administrator (or moderator if the moderators manage categories and groups setting is enabled) Categories are meant to hold a collection of topics that have similar subject matter. They include an abundance of configuration options you won’t find with the lighter-weight tagging feature. By default, category creation is limited to admin users. Moderators can be given the ability …

[Moin]

That description is only shown to new users and visitors. The idea is that you know the categories after using a forum for some time, so it is hidden for staff users and users with a higher trust level

discourse/discourse/blob/235c6434c10d592fc9ed413c1f731c305241cc6d/app/assets/javascripts/select-kit/addon/components/category-drop.js#L79-L83

[king_laurel (Laurel)]

@moin Do you know if there’s a setting to disable this? I want it to show to everyone always, regardless of user’s trust level.

thanks!!

[Moin]

I don’t think there is a setting. If there was one, I would expect it to be included in that code snippet.

I haven’t tried if it still works, but you could try

How can I add the category descriptions to show in the category dropdowns?

As Daniela mentioned, we only show the category description in the dropdown for new users (trust level 0) and it’s hidden for everyone else. The thought is that regular visitors will benefit from seeing more categories at once and the descriptions are less useful. You can override this behavior by adding this to the head section of your site’s theme (admin > customize > themes > edit html/css): <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"> api.modifyClass("component:category-drop", { …

I actually do not miss the descriptions in the dropdown. If I want a list of all categories with their descriptions, I look at /categories (or the banners here at Meta). I like that the dropdown is short, so I do not have to scroll that much.

[king_laurel (Laurel)]

Interesting, seems like a strange default behavior to thrust upon sites by default.

As always, thanks for your help @Moin