# Showing categories statically above most recent posts **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-categories-statically-above-most-recent-posts/136939 **Category:** Support **Created:** [24 december 2019 om 04:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-categories-statically-above-most-recent-posts/136939 "2019-12-24T04:32:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![smrtey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@smrtey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smrtey) #### Post date: [24 december 2019 om 19:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-categories-statically-above-most-recent-posts/136939/2 "2019-12-24T19:16:28Z")
Not sure what you mean exactly but here’s a plugin that shows categories in a sidebar. If you want it above rather than on the side you might be able to rewrite it to do that but unless you only have a few categories I don’t know how you’d fit them all above. > [@Sidebar with categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-with-categories/104165): > > This plugin shows categories on the page sidebar on all discovery list pages (latest, new, unread but not on the single topic page, and categories). Screenshot: Blocks can be ordered in the plugin settings. Speaking of which, there are these settings under Admin \> Settings \> Plugins: sidebar enable enables the display of the sidebar sidebar custom content where you can enter arbitrary HTML content to show on the sidebar Repository: [GitHub - Toxuru/discourse-s…](https://github.com/Toxuru/discourse-sidebar-categories) If you have few enough categories that they do fit above, you could add static links to them with something like > [@Custom Header Links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-header-links/90588): > > discourse2Summary Custom Header Links allows you to easily add custom text-based links to the header.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/custom-header-links)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [GitHub - discourse/discourse-custom-header-links · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-header-links)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features Desktop Mobile (due to very limited space, adding more than one link on mo… or > [@Custom Top Navigation Links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-top-navigation-links/87225): > > discourse2Summary Custom Top Navigation Links allows you to add links to Discourse top navigation.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/custom-top-navigation-links)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-nav-links-component](https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-nav-links-component)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features Desktop Mobile Settings: … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-categories-statically-above-most-recent-posts/136939)._