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 theme-creator.discourse.org Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-showcased-categories New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component [Screen Shot 2020-12-16 at 1.23.…

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

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 category, editing its settings, going to the settings tab, and choosing these options: [37%20PM] Boxes The “Boxes” style is currently being used in our howto category. By using very short category description and adding logos to each subcategory, i…