Different landing page for desktop vs mobile theme?

[tshenry (Taylor)]

No worries. I should have linked to instructions here too! There is a nice illustrated set of instructions you can check out here. It’s possible you might be on the latest version of Discourse, in which case the UX for themes and components has changed a little. Let me know if the instructions I linked to still leave you a little lost. I’d be happy to help you figure it out.

By the way, the topic below is the home of this theme component now:

Force Mobile Homepage

Currently the default homepage settings found in the admin panel and user preferences apply to both desktop and mobile. This is a very simple theme component that will allow you to specify a different default homepage for the mobile view of your Discourse forum. It is important to note that this will force mobile to navigate to the homepage you choose in this theme component. Your users will not be able to override the default homepage for mobile via their user preferences at this point. Repos…

[maia_internet (Dave)]

thanks @tshenry i’ll take a look.

however I’ve just fiddled round with the customization settings - I’ve never had an issue before, and now my site has disappeared!! Just produces a blank screen, but the code is there!!

any idea how to reverse changes from the cli???

Air Cadet Central

cheers

[tshenry (Taylor)]

You’ll need to go to your site’s safe mode Air Cadet Central and check “disable current theme” then you’ll want to revert whatever change you made in the customizations.

[maia_internet (Dave)]

thanks fella - didn’t know that existed! Lifesaver!

[maia_internet (Dave)]

OK back up and working - thanks again - I’ve installed your theme and it’s installing as a Theme not a Theme Component??? any ideas. I’m on Version: v2.1.0.beta5 +66

cheers, and thanks for your hard work

[tshenry (Taylor)]

No problem. If you select it from the list of themes, then scroll down, you should see a section like this:

You’ll want to click the “make component” button then confirm. You should then be able to add it to your main theme the way it’s outlined in the instructions I linked to earlier.

[maia_internet (Dave)]

Fab, getting there! Making it a component works, but when I add it to my theme it adds a component with the others but there’s no text for the link, but the (x) button is there. The link it produces ends in a # where the others don’t??
and it doesn’t seem to work!!

Cheers

[tshenry (Taylor)]

Ah yeah, I think that might be a little bug that’s still getting worked out. Try refreshing the page, then click the (x) if that blank theme component is still there, then try selecting the Force Mobile Homepage component again. You might also try selecting another theme component from the dropdown list, then open the list again and select the Force Mobile Homepage component again. Click the “add” button and hopefully that should do it!

[maia_internet (Dave)]

You are indeed a hero - now working as advertised! Many thanks for your help today, greatly appreciated!

[merefield (Robert)]

@maia_internet

there’s no text for the link, but the (x) button is there.

Yes, I’ve come across this several times. Has this been reported I wonder?

[maia_internet (Dave)]

I don’t know - I haven’t - but @tshenry 's suggestion of moving in and out of the drop down menu after a page reload worked.

[MartyMeh]

Nice one! thanks @tshenry

[msinger (Mike Singer)]

Any reason not to combine your script with the following in Customize --> Themes --> Mobile --> Header?

<script>
  if (window.location.pathname == "/")
  {   window.location.href = "/latest";
  }
</script>

This will handle the initial redirect to /latest if the user arrives on the homepage.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

No particular reason, no. That said, I no longer use that script. With the addition of user-selectable homepages I just have those that prefer /latest select it.

[msinger (Mike Singer)]

I originally found this topic when searching for a solution to my problem:

How to default to latest on mobile and categories+latest on desktop?

Is there a way to default the frontpage to display latest page on mobile, while on desktop displaying the categories+latest combined view? I’m currently trying to figure this out.

As it explains, I have my forum set up to display categories + latest since I don’t only want to display the latest on desktop. Here are the two Discourse settings that make that layout possible:

It’s the ideal layout for me since it both displays the categories for users looking to post something new and makes the latest available for other people who are just coming back to see what’s new.

For anyone reading along who wants to do the same thing, here’s what you need to do:

1. Go to the Edit CSS/HTML section of your theme:

   

2. Add the following script in the Mobile → Header section (so it only affects visitors on mobile devices):

   

   Here’s the script so you can copy/paste it:

   <script>
       if (window.location.pathname == "/")
       {   window.location.href = "/latest";
       }
   </script>
   
   <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.4">
       api.changeWidgetSetting('home-logo', 'href', '/latest')
   </script>
   

Update: The Forced Mobile Homepage theme component linked above is probably a better way to accomplish this.

[Paracelsus]

能否按用户实现此功能？例如，每个用户都能在界面偏好设置中选择其在移动端的默认页面（目前已有通用设置，我们只需增加一个仅限移动端的选项）。

[sbernhard (Bernhard Suttner)]

我目前也遇到了同样的问题：在桌面端，我更喜欢将分类视图设置为右侧显示最新主题。而在移动端，分类视图仅显示分类列表。在移动端，我更希望看到“最新”主题变更的视图。

如果能提供两个偏好设置就太好了：

• 桌面端默认主页：[选择字段]
• 移动端默认主页：[选择字段]

这是否是一个可以接受提交 PR 的功能？

[Tomas_Hnyk]

这是否也可以作为每台设备的设置？上述变通方案并非理想选择，因为它们会强制所有移动用户（且在此方面，平板电脑难以归类）采用同一设置。很明显，根据设备不同设置不同的偏好往往更有意义，而不仅仅是区分桌面端和移动端。

[pedroponte]

这是轮子之后最伟大的发明！谢谢你，兄弟

[Michele_Butturini]

我也很想拥有这些偏好……有什么办法可以做到吗？