The discussion revolves around creating Category Boxes within a Theme. rudypenajr is trying to achieve a layout similar to Figma or Wyze, where categories are displayed in boxes, but is unsure about how to implement it without creating a custom theme component.
rudypenajr shared images of the desired layouts and explained that they don’t want to create a custom theme component, but rather have it as part of their current theme.
awesomerobot suggested changing the site setting desktop category page style to one of the “box” styles, which would achieve a similar layout. However, this solution only applies to the /categories route, not the homepage.
rudypenajr and rudypenajr later realized that the actual goal is to display categories on the homepage by default. They found a potential solution in an article on the Discourse Meta forum: Category homepage as default.
Hello!!
I know there are themed components that allow us to enable Category Cards/Boxes but I am still a bit dumbfounded on the process. I essentially want to do something similar to Figma or Wyze.
Wyze Category Section
Figma Category Section
I really did not want to create a themed component. I just wanted it to be as part of my current theme. This is where I get confused between themed components, widgets, and plugins.
Thank you in advance!
Those are both custom themes, but if you change the site setting desktop category page style (under admin > settings) to any of the “box” styles it should get you fairly close to the layout:
This is “boxes with subcategories” for example:
@awesomerobot Thank you for the response! That makes sense that those are custom themes. I’m actually trying to develop a custom remote theme as well.
Per your recommendation, I actually have Boxes with Subcategories selected under Admin > Settings. From what I can see though, that just sets up the Category Boxes Handlebar Template for the route /categories.
The issue I’m facing is trying to get what is viewed /categories (the Category Boxes) onto the my Discourse homepage (so /).
@awesomerobot I think I may just be asking the wrong question. I think I may have found what I need to do. What I am really trying to do is display the Categories on the homepage by default. I think the article below may help me.
Thanks for your help!
