Hi Guys,
Our HR team have decided to go with category boxes instead of a category list as below.
However, they also would like the latest topics to appear at the bottom of the categories as seen in revoluts community page
I am struggling to work out how this can be done, either as an existing setting or with CSS,
any ideas?
Best Regards
Kyle
Try to work with components
You can use: categories-and-latest-topics
In this mode, there is a connection and categories and recent topics.
<script type='text/x-handlebars' data-template-name='components/categories-and-latest-topics'>
<div class='column categories'>
{{categories-only categories=categories}}
</div>
<div class='column'>
{{categories-topic-list topics=topics filter="latest" class="latest-topic-list"}}
</div>
</script>
Next, you override: categories-only
<script type='text/x-handlebars' data-template-name='components/categories-only'>
The contents of the file...
</script>
Perhaps from this file it is necessary to move the box with the categories, or to do simply to change the css.
Options think very many.
Another option is to simply structure your category directly
Then just change the css, which is even easier. )
Ideally I would prefer to do it like you have suggested, however, there isnt a way to display categories in a grid layout and have the latest topics below. 
I suggest building a static header customization if your categories do not change much. Then you could have whatever layout you like above the topic list.
I’ve built this or something similar for a few sites at this point. If you put this in the </head> section of your theme it will put all the categories on top of your home page (and /latest assuming that it’s the same as your homepage)
Then all you’ll need is add the CSS to structure this layout however you want. This is a good introduction to using the API and Handlebars templates in general.
<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8">
const ajax = require('discourse/lib/ajax').ajax;
api.registerConnectorClass('below-site-header', 'custom-homepage', {
setupComponent(args, component) {
component.set('hostname', window.location.hostname);
api.onPageChange((url, title) => {
if (url == "/" || url == "/latest"){
$('html').addClass('show-custom-homepage'); // Show homepage
component.set('displayCustomHomepage', true);
ajax("/site.json").then (function(result){ // Get list of categories
categoryName = [];
result.categories.forEach(function(categories){
categoryName.push(categories);
});
component.set('categoryName', categoryName);
});
}
else { // Hide homepage
$('html').removeClass('show-custom-homepage');
component.set('displayCustomHomepage', false);
}
});
}
});
</script>
<script type='text/x-handlebars' data-template-name='/connectors/below-site-header/custom-homepage'>
{{#if displayCustomHomepage}}
<div class="custom-homepage-wrapper">
<div class="wrap wrap-category-boxes">
<div class="homepage-category-boxes">
{{#each categoryName as |c|}}
<a href="/c/{{c.slug}}" class="box">
<div class="homepage-category-box">
{{#if c.uploaded_logo}}
<div class="category-image-wrapper">
<img class="homepage-category-image" src="{{c.uploaded_logo.url}}" />
</div>
{{/if}}
<h2>{{#if c.read_restricted}}<i class="fa fa-lock"> </i>{{/if}}{{c.name}}</h2>
<p>{{c.description}}</p>
</div>
</a>
{{/each}}
</div>
</div>
</div>
{{/if}}
</script>
It looks very nice. How I can to add Font Awesome 5 instead of images? Many thanks!
Hello,
Thank you for this code snippet! I am working on a project where I need to do some things on this principle (not necessarily categories) and I would like to put this directly in the plugin that I develop.
I know where to put the template handlebars, but I can not find the folder / file where to put the javascript. Could you tell me how to proceed?
Thank you,
Thymotep
I love this idea! Looking forward to test such a theme component or plugin