Can I create two new topic butons on my home page?

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A user asks if itā€™s possible to have two separate ā€˜Create a new Topicā€™ buttons on their community pageā€”one for community posts and another for ideas. simon explains that while Discourse doesnā€™t natively support this, it could be achieved via a theme component or plugin. Heliosurge suggests using direct URLs to pre-select categories, such as https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category=feature, and references a welcome link banner as a potential solution. Don points to a theme component that converts the new topic button into a dropdown menu, allowing users to choose different categories, with a GitHub repo available for implementation. The user thanks everyone for the responses.

1

i want to have two Create a new Topic buttons on my community page.
is it possible ?

I want to have one button for creating a community post.
Other button to create a Idea.

Please confim.

2

HI @Srujan_Madderla, welcome to the Discourse Meta forum!

Discourse does not provide a way of doing this, but possibly the functionality could be added through a theme component or plugin. If you are new to Discourse, theme components allow you to add client side code to your siteā€™s theme. Plugins can run server side code. It is generally easier to develop and install theme components than it is to install plugins.

Iā€™m curious about the button to create an ā€œIdea.ā€ What is an Idea in your use case? Would it be a topic in a private category, a message sent to a group, or something else?

3

Need more context.

A Customization > Theme component as @simon has said would be needed.

Welcome Link Banner might work.

If community and idea are categories this url link can work

https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category=feature

swap ā€œmeta.discourse.orgā€ with your domain name
swap ā€œfeatureā€ with category slug name.

The above url will start a new topic in feature.

Start Topic in Feature

4

Hello :waving_hand:

Actually there is an elegant solution which makes dropdown from the new topic button. Convert the New Topic button to a have a sub menu - #7 by awesomerobot

It looks like the theme component version of this is here available: GitHub - discourse/discourse-new-topic-dropdown: Turns the New Topic button into a dropdown with a custom option added Ā· GitHub

5

Thank you for the response.

7

Very nice find!