Our main screen looks very different with no top menu dropdowns etc

[RichardTE]

I’ve been building my first Discourse community over the past couple weeks. It is amazing software and a lot to take in. Compared to the meta.Discourse.com layout, ours is very different and I can’t figure out what I’m missing.

Here’s a shot from meta.Discourse.com, taken just now.

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And here’s ours. Posts are displayed in blocks and are not listed across the page. No top menu dropdowns, like Categories & Tags. There might be a simple fix for this, but I’m not finding it. Thanks in advance, and thanks for Discourse!

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And if there’s a way to switch between various main screen layouts, can individual Categories have their own layout?

[NateDhaliwal]

@RichardTE

No top menu dropdowns, like Categories & Tags.

I suspect that is your theme. The default Horizon theme has this (see try.discourse.org).

@RichardTE

And if there’s a way to switch between various main screen layouts, can individual Categories have their own layout?

I think you may have to add Categories to the top menu site setting.

[RichardTE]

thx @NateDhaliwal

will check out what you said. I’m using redditish themes, dark & light, so may have to change. Pity because I was enjoying the look, but not so much the layout.