Is there a way to add the Start New Topic button to the top of my page? Or to my Home page?

These i no facility to add this to the main page currently, unless you are using the fluid layout.

I would say 90% of my members never click on Forum view. They generally just click on What's New (unread content). We get a lot of replies to posts, but only a we new topics. I am constantly instructing members on where and how to do this. I think it would be helpful for my members if they had access to Start New Topic at the top of wherever they are.

You could just add it to the menu as link. Something like: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/startTopic/

If it really should be a clearly visible button, you would create a custom Pages block in the ACP with the link styled as primary button. Something like this:

<div class="i-padding_1">
    <a class="ipsButton--wide ipsButton ipsButton--primary" href="/forums/startTopic/">New Topic</a>
</div>

This is a code example for a sidebar button in 5.x I use.

Edited January 26Jan 26 by opentype

5 hours ago, opentype said:

You could just add it to the menu as link. Something like: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/startTopic/

If it really should be a clearly visible button, you would create a custom Pages block in the ACP with the link styled as primary button. Something like this:

<div class="i-padding_1">
    <a class="ipsButton--wide ipsButton ipsButton--primary" href="/forums/startTopic/">New Topic</a></div>

This is a code example for a sidebar button in 5.x I use.

Perfect! Exactly what I was looking to do! Thank you!

On 1/26/2026 at 11:42 AM, Michael R said:

I would say 90% of my members never click on Forum view. They generally just click on What's New (unread content). We get a lot of replies to posts, but only a we new topics. I am constantly instructing members on where and how to do this. I think it would be helpful for my members if they had access to Start New Topic at the top of wherever they are.

If this is the case, have you considered using fluid view anyway? They would then have a list of topics, rather than a list of forums, with the ability to filter between

16 hours ago, Marc said:

If this is the case, have you considered using fluid view anyway? They would then have a list of topics, rather than a list of forums, with the ability to filter between

I suppose, but they would still have to switch to the Forum view to see that. Unless I made that default- which I don't want to do. Members seem to like the Home page we have set up.

Unfortunately, the majority of my members are older and want it to work like Facebook.

1 hour ago, Michael R said:

I suppose, but they would still have to switch to the Forum view to see that. Unless I made that default- which I don't want to do. Members seem to like the Home page we have set up.

Unfortunately, the majority of my members are older and want it to work like Facebook.

Ah, yes indeed they would need to select forum