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How To Promote Community Categories On Your Homepage

  • 4 August 2020
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In this article, you can learn how to promote your community categories on your homepage to help users discover and navigate to the right content.

There are four ways to promote your community on your homepage:

  1. With a list of parent- and child categories
  2. With a widget of parent categories
  3. With a customised quick link
  4. With a custom built HTML widget

 

Promote a list of community categories on your homepage

  1. Sign in to a community account with user role Community Manager or Administrator

  2. Click the purple Customize button

  3. Hover over the homepage and determine where you want to add the groups widget. Click the plus icon (➕)  and select the Tabs widget

  4. Enable the visibility of the tab Category

  5. Click Done in the sidebar

  6. Click Publish. Your community categories will now appear on your homepage

The following items are optional to do:

  • Rename the tab name (e.g. Community, Forums, Support)
  • Reorder the position of the tabs
  • Define how users will see the category list upon their first visit

 

Promote community parent categories on your homepage with a widget

  1. Sign in to a community account with user role Community Manager or Administrator

  2. Click the purple Customize button

  3. Hover over the homepage and determine where you want to add the groups widget. Click the plus icon (➕)  and select the Community Category widget

  4. Select a Template

  5. Click Done in the sidebar

  6. Click Publish. Your community parent categories widget will now appear on your homepage

The following items are optional to do:

  • Add a title (e.g. Community, Forums, Support)

Tip: Add a ‘Container 2:1’ widget to make the widgets above appear next to a sidebar

 

Promote community categories on your homepage with a customised Quick link

Add a quick link on your homepage that links to a community parent- or child category
Learn how to Set up quick links on your homepage

 

Promote community categories on your homepage with a custom built HTML widget

Add a custom HTML widget on your homepage and sidebar that links to a community parent- or child category
Learn how to add custom widgets with HTML&CSS


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