[Guide] Override the home page on a NodeBB

julian

The Viridian theme (which is perpetually a work-in-progress theme) utilises this to have the recent topics as the primary page.

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@julian Hmmm, the name makes it sound like a Game of Thrones character. Interest piqued...

julian

Hahaha, actually, with the exception of vanilla, themes created by the NodeBB team follow a certain theme...

Lavender, Viridian, ...

I guess a sample size of 2 doesn't help

psychobunny

I don't suppose the ACP will ever have a "select homepage" option

I imagine it would be possible to do. It's something I've been wanting to do but haven't had the time for it yet

limitx3m

I'm guessing this is a little dated.

Is there a way I can create my own routes and decide what nodebb features are displayed on a page? I would like to make at least a splash page that's not separate from nodebb.

sadmulwar

Hi,

I am using NodeBB 0.6.0 and I tried above all steps but its not working. Can any one help me out ?

Actually instead of "Recent" page I want to show "category/2/general-discussion" as my home page.

Thanks in advance!!!

julian

@sadmulwar The guide is for an outdated version of NodeBB, you should just try assigning the / route against the router... @baris or @psychobunny can confirm, but in your listener for static:app.load:

plugin.init = function(data, callback) {
  data.router.get('/', function(req, res) {
    // ...
  });

callback();
});

PitaJ

@julian

I appears the custom homepage plugin doesn't work well with ajaxify. If you ajaxify to the / route, it just goes to the categories page. However, if you cold load to /, it goes to the custom homepage. Is there a way to fix this?

Is there a hook to add possible routes to the "Home Page Route" dropdown in the ACP?

psychobunny

I haven't updated that plugin yet iirc, and we haven't built a hook for the ACP dropdown just yet, but its a good idea. PR?

PitaJ

@psychobunny

You must code in your sleep, because the hook is definitely there already