How to bring in Latest topics when using category boxes

[simonk (Simon King)]

I haven’t done this before, so I don’t know the answer. The theme developer tutorial would definitely be a good place to start.

Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes

So, you want to create Discourse themes? Not sure where to start? Or maybe you have created Discourse themes before, but want to learn how to do even more cool things. Well, you’ve come to the right place Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes Subjects include a general overview of Discourse themes, creating and sharing Discourse themes, theme development examples, searching for and finding information / examples in the Discourse repository, and best practices. Prerequisites: …

If you search that page for “Mounting widgets”, you’ll see an example of displaying a widget in a different part of the page.

This #howto topic might also be useful as an example:

How to add a featured topic list to your Discourse homepage

In this #howto we’ll add a topic list populated by a tag or a category on top of your homepage’s main topic list, like this: [04%20PM] All of the code below can be added to the </head> (head_tag.html) section of your theme. This first part checks which page we’re on, then sets up our topics. For the purpose of this how-to we’re pulling topics tagged featured. If you want to pull topics from another tag or a category you need to change the /tags/featured.json url in here. <script type="text/…