How can I show both "Categories" and "Latest discussions" on forum home page ?

Pezito

Hi there,

I know it's been asked once (https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/36660/discussions-and-categories-on-homepage) but this was two years ago; also I'm clearly not skilled enough to make use of the help proposed there... Tried to, though. :)

So how can I get Vanilla to display Categories AND Latest Discussions on the front page ? I don't need anything else, no other structural change – just have both on one page.

Thank you!

Bleistivt

The module solution proposed in that thread is probably the best. But you could also load in the categories using JavaScript similar to a solution I have proposed for the leaderboard recently.

You should be able to use the included pockets plugin to display a pocket after the discussion list. You can then include this script:

<script>
jQuery.get('/categories?DeliveryType=VIEW').done(function (html) {
   jQuery('main')
       .append(jQuery(html).find('.CategoryList'))
})
</script>

Pezito

Long story short, I currently have either of these:

And I just would like to have both at the same time:

Fine-tuning CSS or HTML isn't a problem but as you can guess, the whole themes hooks matter isn't easy for me to grasp. I've looked it up here, read a bit, copy-pasted some code by others to see what happens... But I feel I'm missing the necessary knowledge to make it work without help. :(

Bleistivt

The module solution proposed in that thread is probably the best. But you could also load in the categories using JavaScript similar to a solution I have proposed for the leaderboard recently.

You should be able to use the included pockets plugin to display a pocket after the discussion list. You can then include this script:

<script>
jQuery.get('/categories?DeliveryType=VIEW').done(function (html) {
   jQuery('main')
       .append(jQuery(html).find('.CategoryList'))
})
</script>

Pezito

Thanks a lot, it worked! ^^

I was actually going for the module or theme hooks solution, as it seemed the clever way of doing it – I've read a lot about these and felt I could almost do it by myself... But your solution seems to work really fine and in a glimpse. :)

I know of the Pockets plugin but didn't think I should use it. But the way it can display all block locations is sooooo useful actually! I had trouble finding out which locations I needed: "_before", "_after" and all... With Pockets everything shows up clearly and I trust it will help me later.

Thanks for your help Bleistivt, much appreciated. :)