# Make "New Topic" button more prominent
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [May 8, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296 "2017-05-08T15:17:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/1 "2017-05-08T15:17:54Z")
I had some users complain that it wasn’t obvious how to post a new topic, so I styled the button to look like `.btn-primary`. I think that might be a good default, actually:
(I also changed the “create” vocabulary to “post” since taking the screenshot, but that’s another matter altogether 🙂 )
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/2 "2017-05-08T18:49:09Z")
This is intentional, we believe people should look for existing topics first before rushing to create a new one. Reply is primary action not create topic.
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/3 "2017-05-08T20:20:39Z")
Ah, interesting! For our community, we currently want new users to be able to find how to ask questions more easily. We’re a small, private community. But I can see why this would be counterproductive in large, public, and active forums.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/4 "2017-05-08T20:27:51Z")
Yes it’s totally fine to change this to whatever you want locally on your discussions, my comments are in the context of global defaults for all sites.
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### Author:  [@AndreasZhou](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndreasZhou)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/5 "2021-07-01T02:44:00Z")
That looks great thanks so much.I would love to change our “New Topic” button to that layout you used.
I am no programmer, any suggestion how I could do this with limited technical knowledge? @alehandrof
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/6 "2021-07-15T15:06:39Z")
Head to `admin/customize/themes` and add this to your active theme under common \> CSS
```scss
#create-topic {
background: var(--tertiary);
color: var(--secondary);
svg {
color: var(--secondary);
}
&:hover {
background: var(--tertiary-hover);
svg {
color: var(--secondary);
}
}
}
```
You can read more about Discourse themes here.
[Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966)
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### Author:  [@AndreasZhou](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndreasZhou)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/7 "2021-07-15T23:39:51Z")
Oh, fantastic. I just copy and pasted this and it worked. First time I added code to anything. Very exciting and it looks great. Thanks @Johani
Is there any way to change the copy from the default “New Topic” to “Create New Topic” or something else more eye catching too?
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/8 "2021-07-16T17:41:58Z")
Sure, head to `admin/customize/site_texts` and search for `js.topic.create`
This will give you two results
The first one is for the button you see on topic lists. The second one is for the submit button in the composer when you create a new topic.
You can edit the text of both of those to whatever you prefer.
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### Author:  [@AndreasZhou](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndreasZhou)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/9 "2021-07-17T01:24:50Z")
> [@Johani](#):
>
> js.topic.create
Thank you so much, this is super useful. Changed it already.
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-topic-button-more-prominent/62296/10 "2021-07-23T15:40:04Z")
I was on vacation and not following up on my email. Thank you @joe for following up! I actually didn’t even remember what I had done, it was so long ago! 😊