Show sidebar to anonymous user + Welcome area in central theme

[tevildo]

How can I show the sidebar to anonymous visitors?
Also, how can I remove the welcome field in the header area of the central theme?
There are boxed categories on the homepage of the central theme. how can I remove this? Can I show categories and recently opened topics side by side in the central theme as in the Discourse default theme?

[Lilly]

Hi there

@tevildo

How can I show the sidebar to anonymous visitors?

sidebar shows when not logged in in desktop. I think mobile view isn’t fully supported yet. The theme is tagged as experimental .

@Discourse

Central is best experienced on desktop via Chromium browsers. Mobile and tablet versions will be developed later.

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[tevildo]

Hi,
The screenshot you sent is not the same as the central theme I use. How can I make the theme like this?

[NateDhaliwal]

That’s the category page. @Lilly was at the topics page.