XF 2.2 Help with homepage

[neon tetra]

My first time experience creating a forum site and I am learning on the way.

I have created a new forum and now trying to setup a homepage. Currently if I click on Home, it takes me to the forum tab.




Here is my board option setup:



So what exactly I need to do in order to point the site to that home tab?

Secondly, what is the way to get rid of the /index.php in the URL?

 

[Paul B]

Change the Home page URL field to where you want the Home tab to link to.

 

[neon tetra]

Change the Home page URL field to where you want the Home tab to link to.

I want it to be the home tab but that tab does not have any specific url defined in the page navigation settings?

 

[neon tetra]

 

[beerForo]

Where do you want Home to go?

 

[neon tetra]

Where do you want Home to go?

I would like to have a home page featuring some widgets

Forums would be separately accessible through the forums tab on nav

 

[Paul B]

1. Create a page node.
2. Populate it with the widgets and content you want.
3. Set the Index page route to the page node.
4. Change the Home page URL to the page node.

 

[Kevin]

I would like to have a home page featuring some widgets

Forums would be separately accessible through the forums tab on nav

Something you might find useful if you're need a 'plug & play' solution....

[CinVin] Home (quick 'homepage' for widgets)

CinVin Home is a quick and easy way to have a XenForo "Home" page for widgets. There are no manual edits required, automatically creates a "Home" navigation menu, pre-installs the same XenForo sidebar widgets displayed on the Forum home page, and...

xenforo.com

 

[neon tetra]

1. Create a page node.
2. Populate it with the widgets and content you want.
3. Set the Index page route to the page node.
4. Change the Home page URL to the page node.

Thanks a lot. I guess this has done the trick without the point no. 2

Something you might find useful if you're need a 'plug & play' solution....

[CinVin] Home (quick 'homepage' for widgets)

CinVin Home is a quick and easy way to have a XenForo "Home" page for widgets. There are no manual edits required, automatically creates a "Home" navigation menu, pre-installs the same XenForo sidebar widgets displayed on the Forum home page, and...

xenforo.com

Will try that but was just wondering, what is the alternate conventional way of adding widgets and content to the homepage then? (Apologies if this comes around as somewhat a noob query)

 

[Paul B]

If it's a page node then you just manually add the content.

Widgets can be added using <xf:widget key="widget_key" />.

 

[Kevin]

Will try that but was just wondering, what is the alternate conventional way of adding widgets and content to the homepage then? (Apologies if this comes around as somewhat a noob query)

Brogan's answer above is the manual method. Create a 'page' node, manually add in the widgets, and then set the node page as your home page. If you want the widget in the sidebar then it'd be <xf:widget key="widget_key" position="sidebar" />. To get the widget_key value you can either add a new widget, provide the key value, and then use it on your page or look at any of the existing widgets to view the key value.

Using something like the add-on linked above saves you from having to do the manual entries as the positions would show up in the 'add widgets' screen and there's a few other options that some are interested in (like turning on/off or changing some elements that can be set in the add-on options).

 

[neon tetra]

Brogan's answer above is the manual method. Create a 'page' node, manually add in the widgets, and then set the node page as your home page. If you want the widget in the sidebar then it'd be <xf:widget key="widget_key" position="sidebar" />. To get the widget_key value you can either add a new widget, provide the key value, and then use it on your page or look at any of the existing widgets to view the key value.

Using something like the add-on linked above saves you from having to do the manual entries as the positions would show up in the 'add widgets' screen and there's a few other options that some are interested in (like turning on/off or changing some elements that can be set in the add-on options).

Installed it and already loving it. Thanks for recommending this and saving many hours of my life!

 

[neon tetra]

Secondly, what is the way to get rid of the /index.php in the URL?

Just this last question... all my site url's are having this index.php which I have noticed is usually not there in some other XF sites. I know I have probably done something different somewhere thats pulling this.

 

[Paul B]

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