I have seen some forums using custom designs on the landing page of their discourse forum. Can this be achieved without a need to change code in discourse github.
I want to add a banner image and some text above latest topics list of the landing page.
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Yes, we strongly recommend against changing Discourse’s source as it makes upgrades much more difficult and prone to breaking. Themes, theme components, and plugins should be utilized instead.
There are some existing #theme-component that may work, or can at least serve as examples if you want to develop your own.
Versatile Banner might work for you as-is or with some minor adjustment.
Showcased Categories Theme Component is a good general example of how to show custom content on the homepage.
The fastest way is to go inside your admin area > Customize tab > click on your theme’s name > Edit CSS/HTML > After Header tab and there you can paste your HTML code. This is the area:
We only use some plugins and CSS on Blender Artists, no custom HTML.
Great !!! Could you suggest some of the plugins that you are using.
Highly recommend Versatile Banner, it’s extremely simple, easy to use, and fairly flexible.
I only used it on a small side project of mine for an investing forum site, but so far like the results.
I paired it with a linked component to create area/zone links around each of the 3 categories, works well. Just had to create a new component, insert code into the Header, and done.
The most important one for us is Topic List Previews - it handles the featured images row at the top of the page and our galleries etc.
