How to change website HOME page ?

[akumbhare]

Hi,

In my nodeBB site, I want to show "General Discussion" category as a home page.
Meaning "/category/2/general-discussion" should be my home page.
When User visit my site it shows "topics" on "General Discussion" as Homepage.
Where and What type of changes I have to make in my theme or in code?

Is there any plugin which help me out from this?

So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!!

[agarcia17]

anybody have any insight on this? I too would love to accomplish this.

[yariplus]

There should probably be a 'Custom' option in ACP=>General=>Homepage.

[julian]

I know that plugins can add their own pages to this dropdown, although we don't right now have the capability to define a custom page....

[yariplus]

@julian I'm experimenting with adding that in now.

[yariplus]

Got this working.

Noticed a problem though. The Breadcrumb 'Home' always points to the root, when it should always point to the 'categories', IMO.

[agarcia17]

@yariplus that's awesome..! any pointers on how you did it?

[baris]

@agarcia17 I merged his changes into master, it will be available in the next release.

[yariplus]

@agarcia17 I changed default operation for the index route controller ('/') to 'redirect' when no plugin hook is detected. Then in the admin template, I just populated the drop down with all the Category slugs.

I also added a 'Custom' text input where you can type in any address.

[yariplus]

Oh, and many thanks to @baris for correcting all my javascript newbie mistakes.

[agarcia17]

@baris @yariplus thanks!

[xen]

@baris I noticed that when you refresh home page, the home page address is converted into - https://community.nodebb.org/category/2/general-discussion (example)

Is it possible to make the home page has always had an address https://community.nodebb.org?