Hey everyone, I would like to make a custom landing page layout for the forum which displays the categories as boxes with the subcategories and the latest topics from that category in the same style as the latest topics section with the avatar image of the last poster I would like to know if it’s …

I don’t think there are any theme components available currently that can get you to achieve this exact style. Though it shouldn’t be too difficult with some custom code. That being said, perhaps you may achieve a similar output or another design that you like with some of these theme components or…

I already have the category icons and stuff. These are the views i currently have [Forum Category Boxes_03] [Forum Category Boxes_01] [Forum Category Boxes_02] I’m specifically looking for the following fearures Category boxes WITH subcategories AND latest topics (not featured topics) the opt…

[image] Ahmed Gagan: I think you should have a look at this component Custom Category Boxes Component I appreciate the suggestion but this component only allows you to change the background style of boxes. It doesn’t address any of the things I’m looking for [image] Keegan George: perh…

Perhaps then making a custom theme component is the only option. My concern then is maintaining it. I would like to know people’s thoughts on that

[image] James: Perhaps then making a custom theme component is the only option I think that’s right, you have to make a custom theme component. If you are going to use the component and you know the code maintenance is not a big deal. If you are not going to code you have to hire someone who…

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Ahmed_Gagan (Ahmed Gagan) June 22, 2022, 7:00pm 5

I think you should have a look at this component Custom Category Boxes

It says it’s broken but it’s working fine in one of my clients site

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