Ideas for building a personalized homepage.

[Miri]

Hi, I'm trying to build a homepage for my forum. Nothing fancy, but something simple and clean. I see some forums have it and others don't, so I wanted to ask what your users think about it and if it's useful for them, if you can explain how you built it, what widgets you use, and if you're willing to share your work with others.

 

[cdub]

On basic options set the root breadcrumb to Home

I think you also need to make sure nothing is in home page URL field and the box is unchecked beneath it.

 

[BassMan]

In your Index page route (Setup > Options > Basic options) add something like pages/page-name/ if your homepage is a page node.

 

[Suzanne O]

What site building website are you using @Miri ?

 

[Mr Lucky]

The page can itself define the selected tab

At the top of the page template

<xf:page option="section">navigation_ID</xf:page>

 

[Miri]

Thank you for your responses, I hope I have explained myself clearly in English. I believe the configuration is as it should be. Please be patient and check the attached screenshots yourselves.



View attachment Home-Ap.mp4

It might be more an issue of how XenForo restructures the URL hierarchy, as it recognizes the page node (in my case, the homepage) as a category of the "Forum" tab, thus activating the menu of the forum tab instead of the "Home" one.

What site building website are you using @Miri ?

For the homepage, I used the beautiful addon by @BassMan, but I am currently looking for a solution using only XenForo pages.

 

[BassMan]

Open the Home page node again and in the Navigation section select the Home tab.

 

[Miri]

Thanks a lot for,
I tried, but I kept using the home page of your addon and not of my node-page as they had the same title, so I was confusing them.



Now I solved it.

 

[BassMan]

I'm glad you sorted it out.