Duplicate Home page with header, navigation and footer

[AndyB]

I would like to see the core Xenforo product include a template called HOME for the home page. So when a user clicks the Home tab in the navigation bar it will display a home page with header, navigation, HOME template contents and footer.

 

[Paul B]

Duplicate.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/home-page.9282/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/cover-page-for-guests-aka-home-page.13404/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/cms.1553/

 

[AndyB]

Thank you for the links, Brogan, however those links are asking for a full blown CMS system.

What I'm asking for is a very simple home page that has a single template called HOME. This HOME template is where one can describe their forum. The sidebar can be optionally included.

 

[Paul B]

You can do that now quite easily using a Page node.

 

[AndyB]

You can do that now quite easily using a Page node.

Would you be so kind as to explain what you mean by "using a Page node".

Thank you.

 

[Paul B]

http://cliptheapex.com/community/pages/home/

Has a sidebar and custom content.
Fully integrated with the forum.
Has a focussed Home tab thanks to Jake's add-on.
I have actually removed the breadcrumbs otherwise they would be there too.

 

[AndyB]

Hi Brogan,

The solutions I have found so far require quite a bit of modifications in order to create a simple Home page that includes a header, navigation and footer.

I hope others would like a this sort of simple integrated home page built into the core of Xenforo.

 

[Paul B]

As I have explained, a Page node already does all of that automatically.

http://xenforo.com/community/pages/example-page/

All you need to do is add your content.

 

[Syndol]

But then the link displays as /community/pages/home/

 

[AndyB]

As I have explained, a Page node already does all of that automatically.

http://xenforo.com/community/pages/example-page/

All you need to do is add your content.

Interesting, I hope that I make it work. Okay stuck on step 1. What do I put in for the URL portion?



I would like this Home page to be shown when my visitors go to http://www.mysite.com/

 

[Paul B]

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/how-to-create-a-page-node.354/

You will need to use .htaccess in the root to make the Page node load when people try to navigate to the domain root.

 

[AndyB]

Thank you, Brogan.

 

[AndyB]

I created the page node and can access it from:

http://www.mysite/forums/pages/home/

Now if I were to use .htaccess do incoming URLs coming from:

http://www.mysite/

get redirected to:

http://www.mysite/forums/pages/home/

I hope not because I don't want the URL to change from http://www.mysite/ to display my home page.

 

[Paul B]

There is no option to create a vanity URL.

Even with the Route Filter option in 1.2 it wouldn't be possible as you want the home page outside the forum root.

You will need a custom add-on for that.

 

[AndyB]

Okay thanks for trying, I do appreciate the effort.

Hopefully the developers will see a need for this and provide it in the future. There already is an option to make the the first tab the Home page and have it call a simple index.php file, I'm just asking for that page to have a header, navigation and footer.

Again the Home tab would call:

http://www.mysite/index.php

 

[erich37]

is it possible to get the template and CSS which is used for the xenforo.com Homepage in order to have a starting-point in creating a proper but simple Homepage ?

I do not want to create a "Page-Node", but just a simple page directly at domain.com

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/oh-snap-front-page-updated.46570/#post-501379


Many thanks!

 

[OSEFCE]

As I have explained, a Page node already does all of that automatically.

http://xenforo.com/community/pages/example-page/

All you need to do is add your content.

I created a couple pages, one of them doesn't show my header at all and the other is showing the header at the bottom of the page, any idea why?

 

[Mike]

That would indicate malformed HTML in your page contents.

 

[OSEFCE]

That would indicate malformed HTML in your page contents.

If I create a new page and load the page layout and content in the page options why would that impact that? Do I need to add anything to the page options html?

Here's the page

http://www.fatcatcleaner.com/pages/cleaning-forum/

 

[Paul B]

Post your page HTML/CSS here in a code box.