# User-specific Discourse home page

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-discourse-home-page/160229>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 9, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-discourse-home-page/160229 "2020-08-09T01:29:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-discourse-home-page/160229/1 "2020-08-09T01:29:48Z")

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I would like a way to give individual users the ability to have any page as their home page.

### Background

Currently, we can set the default homepage to be one of several views, and users can personalise this:

> [@User preference for default home page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-preference-for-default-home-page/74171):
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> Users can now set their own preference for their homepage. If you’d rather land on New instead of Latest when going to forum.example.org you’ll want this setting. Head to user preferences → interface and select the home page you want Implemented per: [Remember the selected view / tab on homepage - #20 by notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remember-the-selected-view-tab-on-homepage/16982/20) heart to @notriddle for implementing

Using a plugin by @syl, the default home page can be any page within the Discourse instance:

> [@Discourse-home-page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-home-page/139416):
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> discourse-home-page 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](https://github.com/sylque/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 t…

Alternatively, using a theme component by @pfaffman can allow you to use any page:

> [@Allow Arbitrary Homepage (by Jay Pfaffman)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-arbitrary-homepage-by-jay-pfaffman/152459):
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> [https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-allow-arbitrary-homepage](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-allow-arbitrary-homepage) Well, @hellekin thought that this deserved its own topic. I’m not quite sure it’s ready for such, but here it is. I’ll have a look at stuff early next week and try to make sure that it looks like something that other people could really use. wink As he said:

### My use-case

In our login-only instances, we have groups that almost exclusively use the instance for their own private category. I’d like to make that category their homepage. There are a whole bunch of potential groups like this, each with their own category. This is an alternative to having an unmanageable number of instances, and will still allow access to the wider forum when needed.

### The way forwards

What would be the best way to get this done on a per-user basis, combining the existing per-user functionality with the ability to use alternate pages?

Doing this per group (such as @neil’s [Groups can set category and tag notification levels](https://meta.discourse.org/t/groups-can-set-category-and-tag-notification-levels/160069)) would be absolutely lovely.

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