Pin a post even in the categories home page

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Having looked again at the Wizard I don’t think this is possible. Please correct me if I am wrong about this or take this as a feature suggestion.

I am using the Category based home page (Categories + latest posts) and that’s mostly great. But I would also like to be able to pin a single “Welcome - What kind of community are we building” over the top of the categories.

Is this possible? Is it something I could do with a theme? Or does it need support from Discourse itself?

Thanks.

Matt

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You can pin a topic as forumwide banner. Does that solve your problem?

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Hi MarcP.

I guess what I had in mind was a titled link to the post as a banner. But with a little editing to keep the length down this does the job, thanks.

Matt

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I guess that the thing here is that the banner post is big enough that people are going to hit the ‘x’ and not see it again. Whereas a titled link is something you might want to appear for a while (you might even time limit it).

I will see how this works out, maybe people will read and digest the banner out the gate but I have a rather more cynical view of how people operate such systems. Then again, would they click the link…

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There are other solutions, depending on what you are trying to do.

For example you can use the global notice site setting to create a text banner (also supports HTML if necessary). Another solution is to use the Versatile Banner which is highly customizable.

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Thanks Dax. I’m going with the banner for now, but I’m glad to have those options to look into as well.

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