Looking for the perfect theme

[Joe_F (Joe Farrar)]

Hello,

I am totally new to discourse and well really impressed at the moment, but being new has come with challenges, I have been trying to create a theme that will fit perfectly what me and my team want to achieve, but unfortunately, I cannot get much further than adding a new theme (which does match what we want )

I have made a real rough representation of what we want so if anyone has any advice or tips please let me know, I bet there is a theme out there doing just this!

[ondrej]

hello @Joe_F! Thank you for the praise

I’ve had a quick search in the Theme component category for you and I’ve found some TCs^[1] you may find useful in terms of how you’d like to style your posts, leaderboard and tags.

Tags
An official TC

Sidebar Tags

Summary Sidebar Tags displays tags in a sidebar on topic listing pages. The sidebar is only visible on screens wider than 767px (most tablets and monitors). Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sidebar-tags New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features [Screenshot 2021-06-26 at 21.23.27] Set…

Regular TC

Discourse Popular Tag Sidebar

This theme component displays a category’s most popular tags in a sticky sidebar on screens wider than 767px (most tablets and desktop devices). You must enable the show filter by tag setting on your site for this theme component to work. [59%20PM] What can I do with this theme component? Display 3-30 Popular tags in a sidebar for each category Set the sidebar side to left or right Prevent the sidebar from appearing in certain categories Change the “Popular tags” header…

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Leaderboard
An official TC

Top Contributors Sidebar

Summary Top Contributors Sidebar adds a “Top Contributors” (leaderboard) sidebar to topic list pages. Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-top-contributors-sidebar New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features The leaderboard information is fetched for a period of a year and sorted by likes rec…

If you are self hosting, you may also be interested in the Discourse gamification plugin. If you are hosted by Discourse this will depend on what hosting plan you are on.

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Here is a TC that seems to do all of the above

Right Sidebar Blocks

Summary Right Sidebar Blocks shows a sidebar to the right of topic lists with a configurable list of blocks. Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-right-sidebar-blocks New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features The component includes a few blocks you can display in the sidebar: popular-tags …

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You may can familiarise yourself with using / designing Discourse themes using the guides below.

• Making CSS changes to your site
• Beginners guide to developing Discourse themes

You can always create a topic in Marketplace outlining the work you’d like done.

Hope this helps

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1. Theme Components ↩︎

[merefield (Robert)]

This is the ultimate sidebar solution

Discourse Bars (a sidebar framework)

Overview A Theme Component that allows you to lay out Components (“widgets*”) on top and side bars Specify a set of “widgets” distinctly for Route and Position. Supports setups for each of: discovery[1], topic, tag[2], category[2:1], categories[2:2] or the new custom homepage![3] “Bars” can be either: top, left, right OR alternative right location. Each bar can be collapsed or dismissed (refresh browser to reset dismiss). Handles the Official Sidebar, but if you intend you use a …

But you may need help.

If you have budget you can hire a developer to help

Marketplace.

[denvergeeks]

Welcome @Joe_F ! Thank you for sharing your outline. I hope you will continue to share your discoveries and your process with us here on the forum as you proceed with your design and construction. It is so helpful.

Because who here is not also looking for “the perfect theme”?

[Joe_F (Joe Farrar)]

Thanks all,

Really appreciate the help on this, plenty to take away and look at

[Joe_F (Joe Farrar)]

Thanks so much, I have been able to have a play about with these!

I am just looking at the right sidebar blocks, which sounds perfect for what we want to achieve, I just cant seem to pull over our Monthly Scoreboard, have you any suggestions? I have been unable to find anything in the docs.

Kind regards, Joe

[ondrej]

I don’t personally use this component but I would assume that by reading its description, you should be able to add a leader/score board so long as you have the Gamification plugin installed