Static content on Category main page

[MorganCarey]

I am curious if there is a way to show static content on the main page of a category.

For example, on this forum: You see how it has all the topics and the links to the topics. But it doesn’t show snippets of text other than the clickable title?

Whereas Discourse has this: (Note the highlighted section)

What I’m looking to accomplish is to have pinned content at the top of each category that I can sculpt/optimize (for both users and SEO) and I’m hoping I can control how much of it there is (or in an even more perfect world use some basic makeup)

Is this a setting somewhere in Discourse? Is this only for the about this forum post?

[MorganCarey]

I think I might have just answered my own question - I was logged in, but when I log out and go incognito, I do see the about content there (DOY)

Well, that’s good!

But next question, could I show more content under “each” post (not just the first pinned one / about post) or is this exclusive to the about / pinned post?)

Kind of like this REALLY LAME mockup (don’t judge me)

[Moin]

For pinned posts the excerpt is shown by default. It seems the post is not pinned for you anymore. You can change that in your settings Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse Automatically unpin topics when I reach the bottom. and you can also change the default for all your users.
There is a theme-component to show an excerpt for all posts.

Topic List Excerpts

Summary Topic List Excerpts allows you to enable excerpts for unpinned topics (by default, Discourse only displays topic excerpts for pinned topics). Preview Preview on theme creator Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-excerpts New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component [Screenshot 2020-05-14 at 18.56.29] Works great alongside Topic Li…

[MorganCarey]

Excellent,this is EXACTLY what I was looking for :Enabling Excerpts for unpinned posts" - sending to the team. Thank you