# How to alter Discourse main page style
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [November 6, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583 "2016-11-06T17:03:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/1 "2016-11-06T17:03:01Z")
Hello,
recently I came across a forum ([https://community.smartthings.com](https://community.smartthings.com)), quite old style i.e. main topics/thread and then users can create new topics in within that parent topic, but I find it more easy for users and want to apply this to my forum. Can anyone please tell me how can I achieve this interface?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/2 "2016-11-06T17:17:57Z")
You’re looking for the `desktop category page style` site setting, set to “Categories with Featured Topics”.
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### Author:  [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/3 "2016-11-06T21:32:52Z")
@jomaxro Thanks for the reply. I am unable to find this option in the settings.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/4 "2016-11-06T21:37:04Z")
Hmm, are you running the latest version of Discourse, or are you running version 1.6?
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### Author:  [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/5 "2016-11-06T21:37:44Z")
@jomaxro \> Version v1.6.5 +3/1.6.6
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/6 "2016-11-06T21:39:59Z")
OK, that’ll do it. This setting was implemented in 1.7. I don’t remember what the setting (if any) was called back in 1.6. Perhaps @zogstrip knows, he added the new settings.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/7 "2016-11-06T23:26:37Z")
I believe it was just called `category page style`. We added the `desktop` prefix because we’ll add a `mobile` specific site setting 😉
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### Author:  [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/8 "2016-11-07T04:02:02Z")
Nothing such found. Can you @zogstrip please guide me to get this settings done?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/9 "2016-11-07T04:46:25Z")
Easy to miss, but the “prefix” in zogstrip’s post is not in monospace. i.e. it is not part of the setting name.
What was said is "`category page style"` is now “`desktop category page style`” in prep for the coming “`mobile category page style`” setting.
Anyway, I have two localhost versions of Discourse, latest and 1.6.0beta9
The 1.6.0beta9 version does not have a “`category page style`” setting.
It does have `category style`, but that is bar, box, bullet.
It does have the newer “hybrid” categories page. but I could not find any setting.
Things have changed since that version so there very well could have been a setting that was there between then and now. (Or maybe “top menu” took “classic” ?)
In any case, rather than hunt down a setting that may or may not be there, why not upgrade to latest?
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### Author:  [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/10 "2016-11-07T04:51:26Z")
@Mittineague it says that I already up to date. Whenever, their is any update, I do install it.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/11 "2016-11-07T05:02:09Z")
> [@john3](#):
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> already up to date
Hmmm, must be a branch thing. (eg. stable ?)
The latest version is 1.7.0beta7
I have only localhost development installs and don’t have a live forum so I can afford to take chances that things might break.
I guess it’s a trade off. It takes a while for “cutting edge” changes to make it into the stable branch. so the choice is to either wait or be prepared for possible breakage.
Sounds risky I know. but I think if you visit here often you’ll see reports of problems (so you can hold off on upgrading for a while) and though there are a few tenacious bugs, major issues are resolved very quickly.
Of course the safest thing would be to have both live and staged installs so you could test on staging before swapping it to live.
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### Author:  [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-alter-discourse-main-page-style/52583/12 "2016-11-07T05:19:40Z")
alright thanks for the reply. I shall wait for the stable version : )