Hi folks, I need to create one additional level of categorization for our forum for Code.org . I’d like people to click a category (High School Computer Science), and see a list of our courses (Course 1, Course 2, Course 3), then click Course 1 and see a list of units in the course (Unit 1, Unit 2, …

[image] Mehal_Shah: Then I add a route for something like c/:parent_category/:category/:tag that loads topics in a given category with a given tag. https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/howto/faq/badge works out of the box.

[image] Mehal_Shah: so I’m willing to fork discourse and do some hackery on my own. no no no … don’t do that .. it will end in huge amounts of pain over time, forks always turn out terrible. Strongly recommend you simply use tags here, they already work.

[image] sam: no no no … don’t do that .. it will end in huge amounts of pain over time, forks always turn out terrible. Strongly recommend you simply use tags here, they already work. I agree. It seems like a cool idea to fork a project and make it your own and include all the things you wa…

That’s nice - what I’d want is for that tag to show up in the category view like another topic though.

So you want to make the homepage /tags? Can you mock up what you think this should look like?

Sure! Right now, here’s the root of our forum that lists out categories [image] We click on “Exploring Computer Science” to get the Exploring Computer Science - Code.org Professional Learning Community which renders subcategories for each unit [image] When I click into the subcategory for uni…

Adding a category option for sort by topic title would help for this and other use cases as discussed previously . This would allows an easy way to display topics in order based on naming convention, not last edit.

Hacking discourse to create sub-sub categories

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Falco (Falco) May 26, 2017, 8:21pm 2

https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/howto/faq/badge works out of the box.

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