We are starting our forum discussions in October though want people to be able to see the 5 we have scheduled. Right now we are sending people to our Category page, as that seems to be the only place where people can see all of these given we do not have sub-topic forum discussions scheduled yet. Is there a way we can have some pinned message on the top of this page?
Thank you; I am still learning the admin function, and really appreciate this vibrant community!
If you have set a “category logo image” in your category settings, then the starting text from your “about this category” topic’s first post will appear next to that logo image.
If you use a banner you can add css to the editor in admin>customize>CSS/HTML. Something like this will give you a banner with a white background that only displays on the categories-list page:
#banner {
max-height: none; // gets rid of scrollbar
display: none; // hides the banner for all pages
background: #fff; // gets rid of the blue background
box-shadow: none; // gets rid of the box-shadow
}
.categories-list #banner {
display: block; // displays the banner only on the categories-list page
}
#banner .close {
display: none; // hides the dismiss 'x'
}
#banner h1 {
margin: 30px 0 10px 0; // gives the banner h1 elements top and bottom margins
}
Your banner topic looks fine to me and is the functionality I was referring to, yeah. So if that’s what you were looking for, err, there ya go. @simon 's CSS spruces things up quite nicely, too.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to here though, my forum doesn’t have an active banner topic or anything that (should) appear everywhere but the categories page (I think?). Talking about someone else’s forum, maybe?