No "parent/main category" visible on main topic page

[Thix]

Hi,

I have a small problem with my company Discourse forum, and I bet It’s easy to fix, but I don’t really have a head for it.

What is the problem: Users want topics on a main page to display “category, subcategory, tags” below the topic. Right now it’s only “subcategory, tags”

Let’s say I have category and subcategory:

• Animals
  → Cats

And a tag “Feline, Fur”

The topic on a main page only displays like it:

Bla bla bla bla
Cats Feline, Fur

But the goal is:

Bla bla bla bla
Animals Cats Feline, Fur

Tried to check/uncheck admin settings, even tried some HTML/CSS code but no effect. I don’t know where problem is: settings? how topics are created? how categories/subcategories are created?

No idea. I will be glad for any type of help.

[Arkshine]

Hey, welcome to Meta

Do you mean, for example, from

to:

?

If so, you can try this component: GitHub - Arkshine/discourse-show-parent-category-link

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Mine shows automatic category, subcategory and used tags and I can’t remember I would do anything funny

If that was now the question…

[Moin]

That’s at the topic, but only the subcategory is shown in topic lists, like /latest.
I think

@Thix

topics on a main page

Is more likely to be /latest than a specific topic

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

That works. But it really dislikes Category Icons.

[Arkshine]

Yes, unfortunately, it can’t be supported for the parent category. The core code doesn’t allow access to the extra icons added via the API.

[Thix]

Yes yes yesss, this stuff. Gonna install and test it, looks promising. Many thanks.