Published Pages should be able to be shown like /tos /privacy and /faq

[stromkabelsalat]

In Discourse the pages /tos /privacy and /faq are shown like static pages, but the Hamburger Menu/Top bar/Forum logo are visible.

Published pages are shown without he Hamburger Menu/Top bar/Forum logo.

I suggest an option, that published pages are also shown like /tos /privacy and /faq. But only as an option, so admins can choose.

[jimkleiber]

I agree with the OP that the published pages look a little bare to me because they don’t have the top or side navigation, as, for example, the /tos page has.

I just created a published page and it looks empty with no way for people to click to search or access the sidebar, etc.

[jimkleiber]

I think Jon may be trying to make something like this, I’m not sure if it’ll get the url you want, but it may.

Author-only Topic (take 2)

This seems like a good, lightweight option. It’s in an early draft stage, but I’m working on a theme component that will let me add the “published” tag to a topic in order to strip away all the user interface widgets I don’t want people to see.[1] I got the idea from this post: It shouldn’t be hard to disable the reply button based on a tag or category. It’s part of a project to replace a company’s static pages with Discourse. Surprisingly, the Discourse version performs better on the Pag…

[jimkleiber]

Ok, through my best sleuthing, I think I’ve found where they differ.

I think the Published Pages use this layout:

discourse/discourse/blob/8f52fd1051e20fdff41321c5cff99fda05af86c1/app/views/layouts/publish.html.erb#L4

And the About/TOS/FAQ/Privacy (static pages) use the normal application layout:

discourse/discourse/blob/8f52fd1051e20fdff41321c5cff99fda05af86c1/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb

And I believe the layout for Published Pages is being set here:

discourse/discourse/blob/8f52fd1051e20fdff41321c5cff99fda05af86c1/app/controllers/published_pages_controller.rb#L53C1-L53C29

And I think the static pages have this:

discourse/discourse/blob/8f52fd1051e20fdff41321c5cff99fda05af86c1/app/controllers/static_controller.rb#L71C1-L71C29

Now, since it’s in Ruby, I would assume it would need a custom plugin to change this but I’m not sure. I’m also not sure if just changing that line for the published pages to the one from the static pages would work or something else would need to be tweaked.

Anyways, it seems upon first glance that it probably wouldn’t be that hard to tweak the layout of the Published Pages to look more like the static pages.

Anyone have an idea how to take it from here?