In my community we have a very large FAQ. To make each question more easily accessible (for linking), we have broken it down into separate topics in a FAQ subcategory (it’s part of the “learning” top-level category). Here’s what it looks like now, with the Air Theme and Categories Navbar component. …

[image] stephtara: add direct access to subcategories in the navbar through a dropdown Since that’s a separate component, you’d likely need to ask on the component’s topic. [image] stephtara: display the topics in “full-text” mode, on desktop as well as mobile, so that people can just sc…

[image] NateDhaliwal: Since that’s a separate component, you’d likely need to ask on the component’s topic. The solution might require using another component I’m afraid :-/ [image] NateDhaliwal: So you want the full topic post to be in the topic card, not the excerpt? Exactly — just …

I believe both can be done with Theme Components. [image] stephtara: OR some other way to « collate » all the topics (without replies) into one single page. This might pose some performance issues since all topic posts are displayed (but can be mitigated with lazy loading?). If you have many…

It’s just for this category and maybe a couple of others with a limited number of topics. So… I need to learn how to develop theme components? :face_with_peeking_eye::sweat_smile:

What is the advantage of having these questions in separate topics instead of separate posts within one topic? One topic is scrollable in Discourse without any customization. And you could for example have a table of content in the first post

Or, if you have a budget, you can post in Marketplace .

[image] Moin: What is the advantage of having these questions in separate topics instead of separate posts within one topic? I’m also curious about that. Is the intention to keep each FAQ topic open for replies and discussion? (Otherwise I might have suggested a single topic post with Table …

[image] ToddZ: Otherwise I might have suggested a single topic with Table of Contents enabled. Then the whole thing would be scrollable, but also easy to navigate to section headings. I think disco-toc still works per post. I thought of this, too; it’s actually what I created on another Disco…

[image] Moin: Headings have anchors, so you can link to them, but once a new question is added within the FAQ, all heading IDs after that heading change, which breaks all the links. Ah, I hadn’t realized this. I’ll now keep it in mind before linking to any headings. :face_with_diagonal_mouth: …

[image] Moin: What is the advantage of having these questions in separate topics instead of separate posts within one topic? One topic is scrollable in Discourse without any customization. And you could for example have a table of content in the first post It allows us to link to one of the q…

Displaying "full topic" text on category page + access to subcategory from menu bar

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) February 22, 2026, 9:35am 17

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Displaying "full topic" text on category page + access to subcategory from menu bar

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