Welcome Banner

[Leonard_Jacobs]

The “What’s New” section describes a new Welcome Banner feature, requiring
“to select the Enable welcome banner site setting” but I cannot figure ouit where to make that change. Thanks for any suggestions.

[ondrej]

Hi Leonard
Have you looked here?

Bringing popular features to Discourse: Header search, welcome banner, and category icons / emoji

We have added several new features to Discourse based on popular theme components to make it easier to customize the design of your community. In this topic, we’ll share more about these new core features, how to use them, and provide information about they compare to the theme components that inspired them. Header search The header search feature moves search from the magnifying glass in the top right corner to a more prominent input field in the site header. [Header search] When more heade…

[Leonard_Jacobs]

Thanks. I’m on the “basic plan” and under “all site settings,” the option to “enable welcome banner” is not displayed. At least, I do not see it.

[tobiaseigen]

Hi Leonard! Were you able to get the welcome banner going? It should be reachable via the site settings on your admin, at e.g.

https://YOURSITE/admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=enable%20welcome%20banner

I’m not so familiar anymore with the limitations on the basic plan. You might like to switch to the starter plan which is priced competitively, you can do on your admin dashboard.

As you are a hosted customer, you can reach out to our team at team@discourse.org who will be happy to provide you with personalized support.