How to get two column layout and announcements blocks across the top?

[nmoore (Nate)]

How can I get “Category” and “Latest” as their own columns in a two column layout as seen below?

And how can I get announcement blocks across the top?

Is there a way to tell if there is a theme the below example is based off?

Auth0 Community

[featheredtoast (Jeff Wong)]

Two column layouts is the category view, using the desktop category page style setting set to “Categories and Latest Topics”.

As for the featured topics, something similar to this may be what you’re looking for:

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/d…

[Moin]

@nmoore

And how can I get announcement blocks across the top?

GitHub - danwoda/Global-Notice-Cards: Discourse Theme Component

@nmoore

Is there a way to tell if there is a theme the below example is based off?

I just looked at view-source:https://community.auth0.com/categories

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

@Moin

I just looked at view-source:https://community.auth0.com/categories

And when you look there, use the browser search to find mentions of theme and look out for the theme name under data-theme-name: