How to set the homepage layout as a category

[nolo (Manuel)]

There’s a plugin:

Discourse-home-page

discourse-home-page This Discourse plugin allows to set any existing Discourse page (a topic, a category, etc.) as the home page of your Discourse instance. The repo is here: https://github.com/sylque/discourse-home-page This plugin is especially useful when used with DiscPage. Settings discourse_home_page_enabled : set to true to enable the plugin discourse_home_page_path : path of the home page. For example /t/12 will set the home page to topic 12 and /c/5 will set the home page…

Depending on your use case, you could also try this component:

Showcased Categories Theme Component

This theme component allows you to add two “Showcased” topic lists (built from your choice of two different categories) to the top of your forum’s home page. Thanks to @awesomerobot for building out the original structure of this component. [Screen Shot 2020-12-16 at 1.23.49 PM] In the theme component settings, you can customize the name of each column, as well as choose which category to pull from, along with the maximum amount of topics from that category you’d like to display. [Scre…