Higher level of granularity for category & subcategory styling

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Continuing the discussion from Show subcategory list UI:

I find our current options for category styling a bit confusing. When I change the category style, I expect that category style to apply everywhere, unless otherwise specified. The fact that a subcategory index has a unique, hardcoded styling is unexpected.

I’d love to have category UI settings with this level of granularity:

  • desktop category page style

  • Categories only

  • Categories with featured topics

  • Categories and latest topics

  • None; just show Latest

  • :new: desktop sub-category list style (replaces show subcategory list)

  • Inherit desktop category page style

  • Categories only

  • Categories with featured topics

  • Categories and latest topics

  • None; just show Latest

  • :new: Contribute > Feature page style (i.e. configured in a category’s General settings)

  • Inherit desktop sub-category list style

  • Categories only

  • Categories with featured topics

  • Categories and latest topics

This would would allow us to set a more documentation-friendly styling for our howto category, while the rest remains focused on discussion.

(Also find it a bit weird that we only do this on desktop, as there’s definitely a way to do a mobile style layout for all of these options, but that’s a different topic.)

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Show subcategory list UI
New Theme: Tag-Pages Navigation
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I’m not able to understand your post – can you perhaps use some cropped screenshots to illustrate?

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If I understand it, we’re talking about having the option to maintain the two-column split view while browsing categories, or to only show subcategories with no topics listed (in the case of “container” categories).

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Perhaps @erlend_sh can clarify with cropped screenshots.

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I’m holding off on the mockups since I suggested a simpler solution in one of our internal discussions.

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@erlend_sh
is that what ask for something like on https://meta.discourse.org/c/plugin, including some inherent options?

@codinghorror, how do you create such a layout? Could also list tags and/or topics in the tile?
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Traditional multi level hierarchy vs flat discourse hierarchy
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Take a look to the Category Settings, under the Appearance title

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Yes for the latest topic titles, no for tags (unless you build a new theme component to do that).

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found it after activating it :slight_smile:
grafik

good to know :grimacing: but it would allow me to replace boxes by e.g. in a horizontal scrollable window, e.g. imaging there >10 boxes under POPULAR TOPICS on https://experts.feverbee.com/

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ending up with a layout like
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https://experts.feverbee.com/ has a very high level of customization and plugins written specifically to create a new interface. If you want to reach the same level of customization, you must have a team of developers able to manipulate and create new templates for Discourse, or hire developers on our Marketplace

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would be nice to know what of those is behind which customization :yum:

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Some of those CSS customizations they have posted on their site.

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I’ve just stumbled across https://discuss.okfn.org/ where they show the sub-categories in the boxes. Is this also customized or is that only a unique feature of the Discourse Vincent theme?

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이런 기능이 있으면 좋겠습니다. 태그에도 동일한 뷰를 적용해 주었으면 합니다. 이제 Discourse가 태그를 도입했으니, 태그를 탐색에 더 효과적으로 활용할 수 있으면 좋겠습니다. 현재 태그는 거의 숨겨져 있어 기술에 익숙하지 않은 사용자들은 찾기나 사용하기가 어렵습니다.

Could categories and tags be the same thing?