How to add top welcome message to the board

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Adding a Top Welcome Message to a Discourse Board

M_М asked how to add a customizable top welcome message to their board, sharing a screenshot of the desired layout. Steven provided the source code for Discourse’s signup banner on GitHub, but noted that customizing it can be tricky. He recommended using the Versatile Banner theme component instead, linking to its meta thread. M_М found the GitHub link for the Versatile Banner component, but struggled to replicate the exact layout used on meta.discourse.org. Steven clarified that Discourse uses a different, harder-to-customize banner, sharing its GitHub source code.

How to add this to my board and customize it?

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I think they don’t mind that this link is shared, here is the source code of this banner : GitHub - discourse/discourse-signup-banner · GitHub

But to customize you’d need to fork and edit, which can be tricky.

I would suggest Versatile Banner, this a theme component made for these kind of requests:

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As far as I understand this is my link? GitHub - discourse/discourse-versatile-banner · GitHub

actually

It seems like meta.discourse.org uses something else, not Versatile Banner component. I am saying this because I cannot really setup Versatile Component to look exactly like here at meta.discourse.org

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Discourse used this :

But it is more difficult to customize

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