Display presentation in Categorie Home page

[poka (Etienne Bouché)]

Hi!

I would like to dislay a brief presentation of my forum on the top of the home page, which is the Categories page.
Is it possible in Discourse ? I didn’t found any answer at the moment …

Thx!

[Falco]

You can use a banner text (Site Settings) or a banner topic for that (wrench icon on the topic).

[dax (Daniela)]

Sure, you can pin a topic (by admin wrench) and make it like an announcement.
Take a look here https://discuss.moe/ to see an example.

You can use a banner text (Site Settings) or a banner topic for that (wrench icon on the topic).

The difference is that the users cannot close the banner text, the banner topic can be closed.

[poka (Etienne Bouché)]

Thank you!
But what’s admin wrench ? Is it a plugin ?
And I don’t find the banner text or banner topic in the Discourse Settings …

[Falco]

New "Banner Topic" pin type

One thing we’ve noticed is Discourse sites putting welcome banners up, like this: [image] Technically this site welcome function is covered by the pinned welcome topic [image] But clearly we need something a bit more… obvious… for new users, as this is a recurring user-created design element on multiple Discourse sites. We also noted in a random usability test that a new arriving user indeed never found or read the pinned topic, at all. We proposing adding a new type of topic “p…

[poka (Etienne Bouché)]

Thank you @Falco! I found it.
In fact, the menu changed, we have to click on “pin topic” then a box is displayed:

(Sorry it’s french )
I think that should be interesting to communicate about this
Bye!