# Always open the first post of the topic?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1월 20, 2016, 11:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235 "2016-01-20T11:03:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bankerrahul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bankerrahul)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2016, 11:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/1 "2016-01-20T11:03:11Z")
Hi, I would like to make discourse open the first post always instead of the last read post, is that possible?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2016, 11:18오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/2 "2016-01-20T11:18:27Z")
No, this is not possible. You can do this if you open links in anonymous mode in the browser, or if you never log in.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2016, 11:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/3 "2016-01-20T11:26:18Z")
Just to clarify, you can enter a topic at the top by clicking or tapping on the number of replies.
Clicking or tapping on…
- the topic title → enters at last read position
- the number of replies → pops up a date selector so you can enter at top or bottom.
- the last reply date → enters at the bottom
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### Author:  [@bankerrahul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bankerrahul)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2016, 1:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/4 "2016-01-20T13:53:33Z")
I was finally able to make the forums look good 🙂
[http://forums.witiby.com/](http://forums.witiby.com/)
Would like your feedback and of course the functionality I mentioned above!
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### Author:  [@anon36484860](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36484860)
#### Post date: [11월 26, 2018, 3:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/5 "2018-11-26T15:50:07Z")
Digging up this one
Is there any way via a theme component to enable such feature?
We have really long discussions where all beginners can ask questions. Before they ask a new one, we want them to redirect to the FAQ in the topic to avoid recurring questions.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [11월 26, 2018, 4:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/6 "2018-11-26T16:07:30Z")
You’re in luck, there is a new option on each category to enable this:
> [@Navigate to first post after topics are read, category setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigate-to-first-post-after-topics-are-read-category-setting/92516):
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> Per [this commit](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ac0053f491e6604f943ecb7d10f400d7d1d80d4a) categories have a new setting that allows administrators to amend the behavior of fully read topics. Out-of-the-box logged-on-users will navigate to the last post in a topic after they are done reading it. This is not ideal for documentation type categories such as #Documentation and so on where you often want to re-read the OP a few times. This is a per category setting, to enable this special behavior tick Navigate to first post after topics are read in category settings on th…
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### Author:  [@anon36484860](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36484860)
#### Post date: [11월 26, 2018, 4:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/7 "2018-11-26T16:28:57Z")
Actually my intention was to navigate to first post even when unread posts are available. Only the dot next to the topic title navigates to the first unread post.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [11월 27, 2018, 6:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-open-the-first-post-of-the-topic/38235/8 "2018-11-27T18:00:03Z")
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