XF 2.2 How to have main forum on home page?

[jayhawku]

So, I ended up purchasing a theme and have been clunkily trying to get it where I want. Like how the AVSForum has a bunch of topics listed when you go to their homepage, I would like people that visit my site: http://www.phogpolitics.com to see the main forum instead of being presented with which forum to open (provided they are registered). This is because I will only have one main forum for now so if there's only one forum, there's no need to add extra steps if that makes sense.

The theme owner who's been very helpful said that this is a software related question and I should be asking here. Any thoughts? Does this make sense?

TIA for any help.

 

[Paul B]

Set the index page route in the ACP option settings to that specific forum.

 

[jayhawku]

Worked perfect. Thanks so much!

 

[MapleOne]

Question here for a new site I am launching

I also want to use a forum as the main index page and I was aware of the solution above but I did not want DomainName.com/forums/forum.2 in the address bar so I used a route filter to change it to DomainName.com.

However, since it now uses forum_view as the main index the TAB Header is the Forum Description.

If I edit the template (forum_view) it will change the title for all my forums so I'm trying to see if I can have the following using a forum as the main page.

BROWSER TAB = DomainName.com (no forum description)
ADDRESS BAR = DomainName.com (no forum description)
TOP BOLD FORUM DESCRIPTION: Domain Name.com (no forum description)

The problem is any template edit of forum_view also changes the info on the other forums and I prefer those to be as original and I have not been able to figure out how to independently change the 3 items above so it does not affect the other forums.

 

[ValidHorseChewer]

The problem is any template edit of forum_view also changes the info on the other forums and I prefer those to be as original and I have not been able to figure out how to independently change the 3 items above so it does not affect the other forums.

I am not experienced, so take this as a possible suggestion rather than a solution...

... but you might be able to do something like:

<xf:if is="$forum.node_id == 7">
    <div style="padding:20px;background:red;color:white;">
        This is node ID: {$forum.node_id}
    </div>
</xf:if>

I feel there might be a better way, but this is one possibility, and nobody else has answered