# Set default homepage to Categories
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 25, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038 "2019-02-25T15:46:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@JoshDevInit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JoshDevInit)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038/1 "2019-02-25T15:46:22Z")
Hi there,
I would like to set the Home Page of my Discourse instance to the ‘Categories’ tab, instead of the ‘Latest’ tab.
I have found some previous topics about allowing users to set their own default category, but haven’t been able to find any advice about how to amend the default home page.
Can anybody help?
Thanks alot.
Josh
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038/2 "2019-02-25T16:26:05Z")
The simplest thing to do is re-run the wizard eg, `example.com/wizard`. You can choose what to use by default for your homepage.
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### Author:  [@JoshDevInit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JoshDevInit)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038/3 "2019-02-25T16:38:17Z")
Thanks for this tip, Daniela.
However, I do not seem to be able to click through to the Home Page section of the wizard.
On Step 3 (Introduction - Welcome Topic), the box is blank and will not allow me to continue unless I populate it.
Where on my forum does this text relate to? We have a pinned ‘Welcome’ post so I do not know why this box is blank.
Thanks,
Josh
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038/4 "2019-02-25T16:53:51Z")
> [@JoshDevInit](#):
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> On Step 3 (Introduction - Welcome Topic), the box is blank and will not allow me to continue unless I populate it
Are you on the latest version? I’m pretty sure that we already fixed this problem. Try to add a simple dot and continue the wizard. After you can control the welcome topic and delete the dot at the beginning of the topic
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### Author:  [@silvacarl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/silvacarl)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038/5 "2021-05-19T00:37:01Z")
Can we modify an existing set up to change all users to category view on login as their default preference?
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038/6 "2021-05-19T04:34:43Z")
that would be the top menu parameter `https://your.domain/admin/site_settings/category/basic?filter=top%20menu`
the first choice is the default view
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### Author:  [@silvacarl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/silvacarl)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-homepage-to-categories/110038/7 "2021-05-19T16:29:16Z")
cool that works for sure!