Hi, I’m a newbie. I have created a Welcome category and the description which seems to function as the first topic. I have altered the category order so that it at the top of the list and General at the bottom and that lists okay, but the landing page always shows General at the top - then feedback…

Hi wrcstewart! I’m not sure from your description how you’ve altered the category order, but you’re probably close. If we started from scratch, there are a couple of things to look at… First, the site setting fixed_category_positions should be enabled: [image] Then on your /categories page, clic…

Screenshots would help! You mentioned a ‘sidebar’ in the title but I see no indication of that in your post. Could you elaborate further on this? [image] wrcstewart: I would ideally like the other categories to land opened. Hmm… I’m not getting this part. Could you explain more? Are you refe…

Hi - thanks for reply. I have in fact done what you suggest and am left with the single problem that when the user lands on the landing page - the hamburger menu is closed whilst it would be much better if it were open showing the categories. Please can you click on the url : butterflydreaming and…

The problem is that you have used the default “about this category” topic. It’s only made as a place to save the category description, and because of that there is special code that hides it from /latest. If you copy its content to a new topic, things should work much better.

Aha - I’m getting it now - when I put in a link to the my forum I can put in /categories at the end then it will open as the categories list. Sorry to be dense.

thanks - I have sort of figured out I can direct the browser to open just about anywhere by putting in the appropriate link - obvious once you realise!

When I arrive at your site, the hamburger menu (sidebar) is open. Do you mean that you want your other categories to appear in the sidebar list, something like this? [image] If that’s what you mean, look in Admin for the site setting “Default navigation menu categories” and add your other catego…

RE: my earlier comment:Aha - I’m getting it now - when I put in a link to the my forum I can put in /categories at the end then it will open as the categories list. Sorry to be dense.

i suggest reading this topic [image] Configuring the default sidebar for your users Administrators The sidebar provides quick access to important sections of your Discourse site. While users can customize their own sidebar to suit their preferences, providing …

You can also configure /categories to be the default homepage by changing the order of the items in the top menu site setting. The one at the top is your default homepage [image] Default Homepage [IMG_1133]

Getting rid of general on the landing page sidebar

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Getting rid of general on the landing page sidebar

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