I am using the news plugin by Pavillion on my new forum-centric website. [image] News Plugin newspaper Plugin The News Plugin adds a new “News” route to your forum. The latest topics in a category(s) (or from an RSS feed) are displayed in a large, news-like format, with an optional sidebar with a topic list. It adds a link to the News route in the header bar. [Screen Shot 2020-02-03 at 10.23.34 PM] It is inspired by the Elektronauts news feed. page_facing_up Get the code bug Report a bug Lost? Not sure how to install a plugin? Follow the steps here. Make sure you check out all the site se… I’m implementing it similar to the way its implemented here: Elektronauts The forum for users of Elektron Music Machines But I was wondering what people here feel is the best way to implement the redirect to the /news directory? Is it a 301 redirect? Or something else? Are there tradeoffs? Any help greatly appreciated.

Is there a way to make Custom Homepage for Groups work for non logged in users or users of any group? I.E. a default alternative home page for those who are not specified otherwise?

I’m not very familiar with the news plugin, but it looks like it adds a new route at /news So, you can use something like this in the header tab of your theme to make that route the default homepage for all users. const { setDefaultHomepage } = require('discourse/lib/utilities'); setDefaultHomepage("news");

Hi Jay. I’ve loaded your Custom Homepage for groups and it looks good. One thing we don’t understand from the explanation of the theme component… does it support anonymous / non-logged in users? Can we identify this null group and direct them to a given path? It doesn’t seem like we can from the little documentation associated with the plugin, but I may be misreading it. Any help greatly appreciated.

I think that you can use the group everyone, which includes anonymity users, but I haven’t tried. The above post looks like it’ll work and is pretty simple.

Best way to make the /news directory the home page?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 16, 2021, 12:29am 2

Did you give this a try? Custom Homepage for Groups

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Best way to make the /news directory the home page?

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