Show categories without selector

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@Rhod

I checked that on said site they apparently use “Showcased Categories”.

That’s for the two columns at the very top:

Showcased Categories

Summary Showcased Categories allows you to add two “Showcased” topic lists (built from your choice of two different categories) to the top of your forum’s home page. Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-showcased-categories New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features [Screen Shot 2020-12-16 …

Another thing, they have desktop category page style set to Boxes with some CSS styling. You may find this useful:

Display boxes for subcategories above topic list

This guide explains how to display boxes for subcategories above the topic list in Discourse. Required user level: Administrator (or moderator if the moderators manage categories and groups setting is enabled) There are two ways to display a list of sub-categories within the parent category: in boxes with only the name, logo, and description in boxes with name, logo, and a list of some featured topics You can enable these styles by visiting the parent cate…