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Changing default load page from "discussions" to a custom "home" tab.

CrazyotakuCrazyotaku
edited November 2006 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Ok so I made a custom tab labled "Home" which I want to be the page that is displayed when visiting my vanilla forum instead of the Discussions page. Is there a relatively easy way of doing this?

Comments

  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Page manager extension?
  • CrazyotakuCrazyotaku
    I can't set the default load page with page manager, unless I am not seeing the option to lol.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Oh right sorry i mis-understood. There isnt an easy way really, no...
  • CrazyotakuCrazyotaku
    is there any sort of redirection script or something I can run maybe?
  • MySchizoBuddyMySchizoBuddy
    why is it so hard to change the default page? is the framework not good enough to make these simple changes.
  • WallPhoneWallPhone
    Thinking outside of the box, if you just remove that home tab, then edit languages/English.php and change these two lines to something like this:
    $Context->Dictionary['BackToDiscussions'] = 'Back to Home'; $Context->Dictionary['Discussions'] = 'Home';
  • CrazyotakuCrazyotaku
    so with that code change doesn't that just change the discussions tab to be called the home tab? My home tab is different than the discussions tab.
  • WallPhoneWallPhone
    Oh, I misunderstood. Did you happen to see some of the discussions on changing the category tab as default? Maybe those techniques can be adapted to fit your need: http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/1658/have-the-categories-displayed-first-as-default/ http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/3248/setting-categories-as-frontpage/
  • CrazyotakuCrazyotaku
    Hmm i think that will help me but now I have another problem. I want to be able to point the default tab to be the home tab just for when you go to the link "../vanilla.1.0.1/" and then whenever you post something it doesn't immediatly take you to the discussions tab but brings you back to the category you were just in. Do you get what I'm saying? Kind of like how IPB boards operate where you go into your specific category, post and hten it brings you back to that category. I could then just use that discussions tab to vew the latest posts. It would be really cool if I could do that somehow.
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