The discussion revolves around the Category Page Plugin, a Discourse plugin developed by Stranik that customizes the category page layout to display featured authors and topics of the week. The plugin allows customization via additional category fields like categorimg and categordiscr, and supports English and Russian. However, it is not compatible with mobile versions. codinghorror questions whether the functionality should be a plugin or a theme component, with Johani confirming that excerpts require a plugin, though sam notes plans to allow excerpts in themes. Pad_Pors and th21 ask for a theme version, and Zup notes it no longer works with the latest Discourse. Stranik announces they can no longer maintain the plugin due to technical and personal constraints, encouraging others to improve the code or create a theme version.
desktop category page style - Categories and Latest Topics
This is a rather non-standard plugin that requires some preliminary actions. You must fill in additional fields in the categories that will be used in this layout.
After a while, I will try to simplify the implementation, which can be used without such actions. Perhaps this code will be useful.
Unfortunately, I will no longer be able to work on this plugin. This is due to my place of residence, the lack of a development environment, a weak laptop only allows you to deal with css, php scripts.
You can clone the repository, or try to make this solution better, easier. I am sure that this is possible.
