How to display a disclaimer to every topic in a category?

[physixfan]

I would like to display a disclaimer to every topic in a category. Such as “Nothing in this forum is financial advice, and all the posts here are for entertainment purpose only.” What is the best way to do this?

[IAmGav (Gavin Perch)]

have a look at category banners

Discourse Category Banners

This theme component uses existing category details to create banners for your category pages. It uses the category name, description, and color to generate a banner at the top of the relevant category pages (for tags check out Discourse Tag Banners). The category description is defined by the first paragraph in each category’s “Category definition for …” topic. The banner background/text colors are defined by your category badge settings. [54%20PM] By default this will display on desktop an…

[physixfan]

Thanks! However this theme component seems not ideal for a boring legal disclaimer…

[ondrej]

Hey there

I’d recommend this theme component as its displayed at the bottom of the page its less intrusive but easily readable.

Easy responsive footer

This is a theme component that will allow you to build a fully-responsive footer using nothing but plain text. Samples Desktop [1] Mobile [2] Settings There are six settings in this component that will help configure it easily 1. Heading Text for the heading in the footer - you can use your site name for example - Max length 25 characters [3] 2. Blurb a short blurb about your community - Max length 180 characters [4] 3. Link sections Add link sections. The ideal number of sect…

[JonathanShaw]

I needed to do something like this myself recently, so used a custom theme component:

<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8">
api.decorateWidget("post:before", helper => {
    const { iconNode } = require("discourse-common/lib/icon-library");
    let topic = helper.widget.model.topic;
    if (topic.category_id == 6 && topic.tags.includes('stub')) {
        let text = "This page is a stub. You can help by ";
        text += helper.attrs.canEdit ? "adding to it." : "suggesting additions.";
      return helper.h("div.post-notice", [iconNode('book-open'), text]);
    }

});
</script>