Duplicate Add a portal
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Mendalla
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Well, assuming @Jaxel lets them. 
I think a core portal is a nice idea but I think it would need be highly customizable, maybe more of a framework for building a portal than just an out of box portal. And Xenporta does have that to some degree.
Is it a priority or a nice to have? Latter. We have some nice add-ons for portals right now.
I think a core portal is a nice idea but I think it would need be highly customizable, maybe more of a framework for building a portal than just an out of box portal. And Xenporta does have that to some degree.
Is it a priority or a nice to have? Latter. We have some nice add-ons for portals right now.
Well, assuming @Jaxel lets them.
I think a core portal is a nice idea but I think it would need be highly customizable, maybe more of a framework for building a portal than just an out of box portal. And Xenporta does have that to some degree.
Is it a priority or a nice to have? Latter. We have some nice add-ons for portals right now.
What do you want from a "portal framework" that can't be achieved with Pages+Widgets?
Mendalla
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That's actually a good question. Maybe pages plus widgets is already enough. I have never tried building a portal that way since I have Xenporta.
Kevin
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So far using CinVin Home and widgets has been easy enough for me to put almost anything on our home page.
Back in the olden days we used vBadvanced CMPs with a bunch of widgets, same concept. My 'Wish List' item for XF would be for the guys to offer a stock 'Featured Threads' widget instead of having a lot of us taking different paths to get to the same destination. Personally I borrowed a chunk of code from the XF code demo and made it into a widget using the XF article display options.
Back in the olden days we used vBadvanced CMPs with a bunch of widgets, same concept. My 'Wish List' item for XF would be for the guys to offer a stock 'Featured Threads' widget instead of having a lot of us taking different paths to get to the same destination. Personally I borrowed a chunk of code from the XF code demo and made it into a widget using the XF article display options.
ge66
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This is what I use:
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Page as portal homepage
With XF2 it's really simple to add a Page as the homepage and populate it with widgets to create a "portal" page. As a few people have asked how to do it I thought I'd post this quick guide. Go to admin.php?nodes/ and click Add a Node Select...
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Mendalla
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Which is fine, but I like the idea of being able to curate the home page, which that out of box widget-based page doesn't do. That way, I can highlight the more interesting threads and keep things like the endless babble of a certain member that I was discussing in another thread off the front page. A portal add-on gives me that control in a way that simply having the "Latest Posts" and "Latest Threads" show up on the home page does not.
It's exactly what it does. For us, the main widget shows the last X threads that have the "featured" prefix. In that way, we curate exactly what's shown on the homepage. We use the prefix system to control the curation.
Mendalla
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Interesting approach. We have already paid for Xenporta and my mods are familiar with how to use it, but maybe for my next site. I assume, though, there is still nothing comparable to the feature slider?
There are widgets that can give similart effects but I've never really looked into it that much. I would say supporting the development of a few specific widgets is much cheaper/easier than an entire addon. I really do think the widget approach is the way forward.
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Alpha1
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This is a duplicate of:
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Widget Pages
Please consider to extend the XF2 widget system with widget pages: Pages that have widgets only. We can then add whatever widget we like to the page and set up custom pages. This would allow us to create a widget page to use as a home page portal. It would also allow us to create various custom...
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