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XF2 GUIDE Page as portal homepage

With XF2 it's really simple to add a Page as the homepage and populate it with widgets to create a "portal" page.

As a few people have asked how to do it I thought I'd post this quick guide.

Go to admin.php?nodes/ and click Add a Node

Select Page as the node type:

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Set up the Page node and add any widgets you want to the template:

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Navigation Section: Home (sets the page to the home tab).

I used
Code:
<xf:h1 hidden="true" />
to hide the page node title on the page itself.

I also use this at the bottom of the template to hide the breadcrumb bar:
Code:
<xf:css>
.p-breadcrumbs {
display:none
}</xf:css>
Then it's a simple case of adding widgets to the template.

Go to admin.php?widgets/ to see what widgets you have available:

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Any of those can be added into the template (as shown above) using the widget key (which you can see above).

The final step is to go to admin.php?options/groups/basicBoard/ and set the Page created above as the homepage using the page url portion you set above.

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That's basically it. You can create extra widgets and add them to the homepage

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