Use Widget only on forum homepage

sanatisharif

@julian
Hi
Is there a way to use a widget only on your forum's homepage .
For example; I wanted to add the "shout box" plugin to my forum, but unfortunately I didn't manage to(because it didn't work correctly!). So I decided to add it as a widget but the problem is that the shout box is on my every page now. I mean on every single one of the forum's pages you can see the shout box which is really annoying and inappropriate. So is there a way to use a widget only on the home page?
Thanks.

Gerald

I have this issue too.

Ted

Hi.
It's already have been discussed in here.

.shoutbox {
    display: none;
}

.page-home .shoutbox {
    display: block;
}

Gerald

Works, thanks.

Kalbaskin

@tedr56 This is not a solution. This dirty hack.

pichalite

@Kalbaskin that's the only solution until persona is modified to support different widget areas. @psychobunny has been promising this for a while but nothing yet

psychobunny

pichalite

come on @psychobunny finish it up already

deiden26

Bumping this old topic. I would like to add some widgets to the homepage sidebar.The solution posted above isn't ideal because sidebar widgets will just leave a blank sidebar on every page that isn't the homepage. Is there anything in the works to add widgets to just the homepage? Seems strange that the homepage only supports global widgets. The custom homepage plugin seems to be broken for 1.1.2 as well.

yariplus

@deiden26 This should already be fixed on latest NodeBB. (I was the one who fixed it.) You should have a categories.tpl section, which is the default homepage.

Do you need more widget areas added?

yariplus

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deiden26

@yariplus The issue is that I would like to have some things on the homepage (e.g. a create topic button, quick links to forum help articles) on the home page but not on the categories page. That isn't currently possible as far as I can tell, but I'd be open to creative solutions.

deiden26

@yariplus My mistake. I was confusing a category page with the categories page. I now understand what you were suggesting, and it is a good solution. Thanks!