XF 1.2 How to make home page?

[Jak]

I'm totally new in both xenforo and forum design.

Sorry for dumb question, but how can I make home page which will use same design as forum?
I installed forum into mysite.com/forum
now i wish to have home page which would have some news feed (or CMS integration), blocks for "recent posts" etc with same page design as forum has.

So far I'm thinking to right click on forum, say "view page source", copy it, modify a little and use as home page. But there must be better way.

Please help / point me somewhere. May be some documentation exists.

 

[Paul B]

So far I'm thinking to right click on forum, say "view page source", copy it, modify a little and use as home page. But there must be better way.

It's definitely not that simple.

There are some portal add-ons available or you can use a page node.

Failing that, it would require custom development.

 

[Jak]

so, only portal add-ons...

I heard there are some "news feed", what is this if anybody know

 

[Jeremy]

http://www.xenforo.com/community/recent-activity/

 

[Qwest]

http://www.xenforo.com/community/recent-activity/

Is there a way to make the Recent Activity page your homepage? Not a redirect but your actual DocumentRoot like if I wanted www.buzzdrone.com to show the recent activity page and not the forum category listings.

 

[Paul B]

Use the Index Page Route function in 1.2.

Options -> Basic Board Information -> Index Page Route