This Discourse plugin allows to set any existing Discourse page (a topic, a category, etc.) as the home page of your Discourse instance.
The repo is here:
https://github.com/sylque/discourse-home-page
This plugin is especially useful when used with DiscPage.
Settings
discourse_home_page_enabled : set to true to enable the plugin
discourse_home_page_path : path of the home page. For example /t/12 will set the home page to topic 12 and /c/5 will set the home page to category 5.
**** EDIT, NEW FEATURE:
You can support localized home pages by adding more values to discourse_home_page_path. For example, the following will redirect
French-speaking users (as detected by Discourse) to topic 13,
German-speaking users to topic 14 and all other users to topic 12.
/t/12
fr,/t/13
de,/t/14
Drawback
When the home page points to a topic, the url in the address bar is changed to the topic url.
Example: if your Discourse url is www.mydiscourse.org and you set the home page to /t/mytopic/12 , then any user coming to www.mydiscourse.org will see www.mydiscourse.org/t/mytopic/12 in the address bar.
Warning
This plugin ia based on a hack. There is no certainty it will keep working in future versions of Discourse, even though Iāll do my best to maintain it.
There is this line in Discourse which might cause an issue, but I couldnāt get my Discourse instance to run through it. Please let me know if you can.
That can be achieved by setting your homepage to Latest Topics. You can make that change my running your siteās setup wizard again and selecting Latest Topics in the Hompage step. Specifically, go to /wizard/steps/homepage to see this step. You wonāt need a plugin to set this.
If you need to set the category page as your home page, I believe this plugin is not required. Just run the Discourse wizard (https://forum.yourdomain.com/wizard) and change the Homepage combo box.
Hello! Iām on v3.1.0 and this plugin has been working beautifully until ~last week. Didnāt change any settings, but Iām now unable to promote any new posts to be featured. Is there anything I can look into to troubleshoot? Thank you
Looks like thereās an update to the plugin. You can see if you have the updated version by going to /admin/plugins on your site. Do you have 05c0098 in the version column?
Hi @victoria1 . I donāt have any issue here with Discourse version 3.3.0.beta1-dev and Discourse-home-page version 1.0.6. Which version of the plugin are you using? (please check /admin/plugins as advised by @jericson)
I realize that the most recent versions of this plugin (>= 1.0.5) might no be backward compatible with older Discourse versions. Would you please give me the address of your forum? (no need for full access, the public landing page is enough) This would allow me to have a better look.
It looks like 2/3 of my posts with the āfeaturedā tag are showing up. Trying to figure out whatās different with the 3rd. All have at least 1 image to use as the thumbnail and I tried removing and re-adding the tag.
Hmm, thatās what I thought: this thread is about the discourse-home-page plugin, whereas your problem relates to the discourse-homepage-feature-component plugin So you might want to ask here.