Migrating from FB Groups to Discourse - help with features/functions

[Lure (Luka Renko)]

@nefv

• Have a “Write post” box at the top of the page for logged in users

Easy to do with this theme component:

(+ New topic) button in the header on all pages

A simple theme component to add the + New Topic button to the header. The button will show on every page - even inside topics. Screenshots: Desktop: [Capture] Mobile: [Capture2] Settings: This component has settings where you can choose the button icon, button text, button title, and whether or not to hide the default “New topic” button. You can also customize the text for when the button is disabled (if someone doesn’t have permission to post in a certain category or tag) [image] …

@nefv

• Rather than displaying just the topic title, show the title as well as the first 100 (or X) characters of each topic in the home view.

You could use Topic List Previews with excerpts - I use it on my forum

Topic List Previews (legacy)

This is now a Theme Component, the plugin is deprecated The new Topic is Topic List Previews Theme Component - theme - Discourse Meta [GitHub-Mark-32px] Repository: get the code here See further here: Pavilion [sandbox] Examples: check out the list further down. Request a feature Report a bug Donate: we are reviewing our donations system. Please check back later :). Maintainers: @merefield Overview Topic List Previews allows you to…

@nefv

• Customise side bar widets/boxes to be able to show a category feed, fixed text boxes and a feed of all media (photos, videos) recently posted.

This one is more tricky and something that you would probably need to engage a developer - you can find experienced plugin developers on marketplace

@nefv

• Change the CSS and colours for the fakebook theme.

Should be easy to do for somebody that is good in CSS.