Displaying tags on homepage like this

[daniel88 (Daniel)]

hi all,

Is there a way to display tags inside the categories on the homepage?

At first, I thought this site was doing just that:

But it turns out, those greyed boxes are categories!

I would really like to display custom tag groups in those spaces. Is there a theme or someway else to do this?

Thanks!

[HAWK]

Can you clarify your request a little? Do you want a homepage that just shows your tags? Or something more?

[daniel88 (Daniel)]

Here is a picture of what I’ve got working right now, annotated with what I’d like.

Basically: show tags in the categories homepage.

[mforbes (Michael McNeil Forbes)]

Something like this would be great. I am not yet sure exactly what I would want (not sure about the OP) but would certainly like some way to organize and display tags on the landing page like categories are displayed.

One potential problem is that categories and posts are orthogonal: Auto-populating tags would be nice at first, but could be problematic given that there could be a huge proliferation of tags. Also, there would likely be redundancy as topics appear in different categories.

Perhaps being able to manually add some tags along with the categories could be useful.

The problem I am trying to solve is that I have some tags that I want to display on the landing page, but which span multiple categories. While ultimately these should probably appear in a reorganized category structure, in the interim, I don’t know how to display them on the homepage.

Updates:

• An overview of features in Discourse Sidebar. Sidebars allow me to do what I want to some extent.

References

Here are some related posts I am finding as I look for options:

• Tags instead of categories on homepage? and Theme or theme components to put topics with selected tags on the homepage. These discussions died out (it seems the OP thought topics were being used to organize another site… but they weren’t) and pointed to
• Add a featured topic list to your Discourse homepage. This provides explicit code for adding your own customized topic list to a page. Will likely increase the maintenance burden of the site though since it is not an official solution, and can break on updates.