AFAIK, the description is stored (and maintained) in the first section of the first post in a description. I want to add links near “top”, “Latest” buttons in the category. As a theme can not be configured for each category, I though I can simply add the data for the links in the “hidden part” of a…

[image] sbernhard: Is it possible to get the full data of the description text of a category in a theme Yes, that is what Category Banners does.

Well, I think category.description returns the well formed category description category.description_text returns the plain data but both are just returning the first chapter of the description and not the complete first post of the category which contains the description. Do I miss something?

Oh that is the expected behavior. Discourse uses just the first paragraph of the about topic as the category description everywhere in the UI. If you need anything else you will need to do an extra API call for the content.

would this be possible in a theme component? Do you have a example?

[image] sbernhard: I want to add links near “top”, “Latest” buttons in the category. As a theme can not be configured for each category, I though I can simply add the data for the links in the “hidden part” of a category description - as only the first fragment of the category description is sho…

Thank you @Falco . This was exactly what I need. Thanks @Johani . I thought about your suggestion. Unfortunately, we have a huge amount of categories and the configuration in the settings would be large and not manageable. Therefore I wrote this theme. I got it working right. After adding support fo…

Finally, I guess this is it. Feel free to use it. A big “Thank you” to everyone who’s working on discourse. Awesome work. Link to the theme component: https://github.com/sbernhard/discourse-add-category-links

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Falco (Falco) May 20, 2020, 12:05am 6

Topic List Sidebars does exactly this!

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