New to discourse and working on building my first community on it. Once thing that’s been driving me crazy and can’t figure out is how to get the Category description to show above the topics after you enter that category. I would assume that’s someone in the settings but I looked everywhere and I can’t find it. Screen shot below is from elastic forum. Really appreciate your feedback. Thanks! [image]

Think you’ll need a theme component. [image] Discourse Category Headers theme component Theme component This theme component provides a number of enhancements for the Discourse category header. The ‘standard’ Discourse category header is displayed at the top of each category page, above the navigation links and list of topics. It is normally only visible if a category logo image has been uploaded in the category settings. The header displays the logo and a short description of the category, taken from the first paragraph of the ‘About the.. category’ topic. This theme component provides the foll… or [image] Category Banners Theme component discourse2 Summary Category Banners uses existing category details to create banners for your category pages (for tags check out Discourse Tag Banners). eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-banners open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features Category Banners uses existing category details to cr… among others

Thanks Elli. I was aware of Category Banner component but wanted the simpler look of simply having Category description showing up at the top of the Category page. I swear i thought this should be simple config flag that I wasn’t able to find. I’ll try the Category Headers theme component if that’s the way to go and this is not supported with discourse out of the box. thank you very much!

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Ellibereth December 11, 2022, 4:30pm 2

Think you’ll need a theme component.

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