Any way to create a "Featured Categories" body on the homepage?

[DonkeyKongEnjoyer (DKE)]

I’m wanting to create a layout on my homepage similiar to this one from the Featured Lists theme-component, but instead of featuring topics in this body, I’m wanting to display categories. Clicking on these category listings would link to that particular category with all of it’s topics.

(The box on the left is taken from the Featured Lists theme-component topic, and the box on the right is what I’m trying to achieve. Showing categories instead of topics.)

Is something like this possible, either with a theme component or via CSS? Thanks!

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Not sure if this might be what you might be looking for.

Category Groups

Summary Category Groups allows you to assign categories to groups, which are then used to sort and collapse categories on the categories page. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-groups-component New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features [category groups example] Important things to note: This only works with the site setti…

Or this one below

Featured Categories Header

This theme component adds a row of featured categories as a header banner. It just shows logos and names, so you should have a logo on each category you want to feature: [Screenshot from 2021-09-16 22-59-16] You can pick the categories in the component settings. Also added a few style declarations to change the look right there: [Screenshot from 2021-09-16 23-40-32] So it’s easy to get some different basic styles: [Screenshot from 2021-09-16 22-58-53] To do more customization, the classe…

There is also the modern Category. Boxes used in the Air theme. Have get github

But looks like this below

Each group of categories under a header name

[nolo (Manuel)]

You can have a look at this component: Manuel Kostka / discourse-featured-categories · GitLab. Should do exactly what you’re looking for:

It has a basic list layout set up. However, I didn’t define other layouts so far and I likely won’t until I’d need it in a project. So if you’d want to customize the layout you’d have to figure out the CSS yourself.

[DonkeyKongEnjoyer (DKE)]

@Heliosurge

Not sure if this might be what you might be looking for.

@nolo

You can have a look at this component:

Thanks! I’ll check these out

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Here is the GitHub link for last one “Modern Category + Group Boxes”

GitHub - discourse/discourse-minimal-category-boxes