[nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage] Basic CMS plugin - custom homepage

[psychobunny]

Allows you to define a custom homepage for NodeBB. The default template comes with four widget areas (main, sidebar, header, footer).

Screenshots

Installation

npm install nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage

Download on GitHub

[psychobunny]

Here's how it looks with the "recent posts" widget on the home page (get it with widget-essentials@0.0.20-1)

[Pablo Macaluso]

npm install nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage

I cant activate it the panel :|

[Scuzz]

Could this also be used for other pages or is it just homepage at the moment?

[Pablo Macaluso]

I dont know whats happend. xD

[trevor]

Yessssssss, been looking for this. >.>

[Pablo Macaluso]

Why i cant activate plugins?!

[julian]

What's the error when you try to activate this plugin?

[Pablo Macaluso]

@julian Nothing, i press Activate, and nothings happend.

[psychobunny]

for this plugin or any plugin? no errors?

[Pablo Macaluso]

Any Plugin!

[zero]

im having an issue where if im on any page and i click the site title, it reloads a blank page with just the header, but if i refresh the page through the browser it loads the homepage.

[psychobunny]

Any Plugin!

You have to restart NodeBB for a plugin to activate

im having an issue where if im on any page and i click the site title, it reloads a blank page with just the header, but if i refresh the page through the browser it loads the homepage.

Did you add any widgets to your custom homepage? If so, do you see any errors in your console? Also, I'll assume you're fairly up to date wrt core yes?

[finid]

You have to restart NodeBB for a plugin to activate

@psychobunny but if a plugin is activated, that act by itself also restarts NodeBB. So you don't need to restart it again separately.

[psychobunny]

Depends on how you've started NodeBB, these days we've got the loader.js functionality in, but not everybody's switched over from using forever app.js, etc - this will not auto-restart and will display an error

[cani]

Clicking the new header.navigation button for /forum does a hard load of the /forum page so transitions are not smooth. After going to /forum going to any other link on top bar smoothly transitions fine. Anyway to correct this?

[erich]

Looks like another great app. For some reason I can't get it to work. Is there an admin area to edit the front page?

[julian]

This plugin introduces new widgets you can drag/drop in the "Themes->Widgets" section of the ACP :)

[erich]

@julian

AH! I didn't' even see that! Thanks! Are there any plans to add a custom menu in the admin page? That would go hand in hand with this addon. Thanks again for all the hard work you guys do!

[zenkamal]

@julian A couple questions:

1. When using the "recent view" widget, it defaults to topics from the past day. Since I won't have topics each day, I don't want this to result in a blank page. The "recent post" widget has an option to include the past week or month -- is a similar thing possible with the "recent view" widget?

2. None of the topic lists have a "New Topic" button (hence the widgetized homepage also doesn't have one with the recent view list). Is it possible to add the "New Topic" button to each page (recent posts and popular posts), or manually add it to the custom home page?