What you are seeing on our #howto category page is set in the Subcategory List Style section of the category’s edit modal. To get subcategories to display in boxes, go to the category page and click the Edit button:
Go to the edit window’s Settings tab and scroll to the Appearance section. Select “Boxes with featured topics” as the Subcategory List Style. Then save the category:
The easiest way to modify the home page of your forum is to re-run the setup wizard. To run the wizard, go to https://forum.yourdomain.com/wizard. Click through the wizard’s steps until you get to the Homepage step. You can use the dropdown menu on that step to preview what each of the homepage options look like.
When you find the display option you are looking for, click the Finish button.