Creating a page

[L3gacy]

Late to the party on this one.. @80sDude I'm sure you got it worked out but maybe someone else is looking for this info

Does anyone know how can I add that page to the navigation menu? Thanks!

Setup/Navigation/Add Navigation.

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I to have a question, maybe you can help @Mr Lucky URL portion: ? Is this what I want the url to be?

 

[Gemma]

I to have a question, maybe you can help @Mr Lucky URL portion: ? Is this what I want the url to be?

Pages have a URL structure of pages/page-name/ so it is basically the page-name, for example, if the URL portion was _mysuperduperpage, your page URL would be website.com/pages/_mysuperduperpage/

 

[L3gacy]

ah, got it! Thanks

 

[Alvin63]

Just trying to do this ............. So what do you put in this box at the top? URL portion?

 

[Mr Lucky]

Just trying to do this ............. So what do you put in this box at the top? URL portion?

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Whatever you like (without spaces or special characters, preferably lower case) That will be the page's URL after this bit https://yoursite/pages/

So something fairly short but relevant, so if you put in risk-assessment then the URL would end up https://yoursite/pages/risk-assessment

 

[Suzanne O]

Just trying to do this ............. So what do you put in this box at the top? URL portion?

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Thread 'Page as portal homepage'

Sep 17, 2017

RobParker submitted a new resource:

Page as portal homepage - Guide to add a Page as a homepage including sidebar and latest posts to turn it into a simple portal

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 Page as the node type:
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Set up the Page node and add any widgets you want to the template:
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[Alvin63]

Whatever you like (without spaces or special characters, preferably lower case) That will be the page's URL after this bit https://yoursite/pages/

So something fairly short but relevant, so if you put in risk-assessment then the URL would end up https://yoursite/pages/risk-assessment

Thank you. So you just create a url link then? It's for a "complaints" policy. But you've made me think - do you actually need to attach the whole risk assessment to the site?! I thought that wasn't necessary. And you just needed it saved somewhere in case it was asked for.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I thought that wasn't necessary. And you just needed it saved somewhere in case it was asked for.

May be true. I just added mine to the site as it seems a convenient place to keep it for easy reference.

 

[Alvin63]

It wouldn't let me complete the full url It stops any further characters before I've finished

 

[Alvin63]

Just to confuse the issue I'm not doing the page node now, I'm doing a help page (as mentioned on the thread about the Online Safety Act). It looks the same but ...........

 

[Alvin63]

So do I just add complaints-policy there? If it's saying it only needs the bit after the help/part?

 

[Mr Lucky]

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So do I just add complaints-policy there? If it's saying it only needs the bit after the help/part?

Yes that should be fine

 

[Alvin63]

Thank you. So further down that page. Do I need to give a description, or can I just leave that blank?

Also what does this mean please? Advanced mode If enabled, the HTML for your page will not be contained within a block.

 

[Alvin63]

And I see further back in this thread that I don't need this PHP bit. So can I just untick the enabled box? Or does that relate to the whole page rather than just the PHP section?

 

[Alvin63]

All done thank you I left enabled ticked - hope that was ok!