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Is this possible to do?
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I want this done. When I go the URL of my forum, it takes straight to the forum page. I want to have a "home page" that looks a bit like the home page of vbulletin.org except I don't want any widgets like BOTM poll and MOTM poll etc. I know this can be done via vBulletin CMS but I am finding it very hard to use it plus I think its creating bugs and error in my forum for some reason. Is there any plugin or product that can do this as well? As an example of what exactly I want done, see the following image. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/11/40.png |
Everything you'll need with this add-on http://www.vbadvanced.com/
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Very versatile, CMS system and such - very handy and best of all free. Just like vBulletin and most plugins - keep it up to date and you're set! |
Installed this CMS. Not sure how to get the thing that I wanted. I see a "custom page" option there but don't exactly know how to activate it or edit the custom page.
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If you have questions about the modification, you will need to ask on the modification site.
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For that you simply need to know how to edit the home page OR edit a template and add in some basic html code and css.
Example Add this to additional.css (template inside of the Style Manager in Admin Control Panel of vBulletin): Code:
.mynewclass { Code:
<div class="mynewclass"> *You can remove the width:90% IF the margin i.e. the outside white-space around the box is too much, by removing the width part of the definition it will inherit the overall width of the site minus (the containers padding AND your div containers margin). |
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Hey, thanks. I managed to figure it out. Now, my forum is located at mysite.com. What I want to do is to make this new home page as my main index page. So when users go to mysite.com, they end up here. Then they click on the "forum" button on the nav bar and are taken to the forum. How can I do that? --------------- Added [DATE]1415127156[/DATE] at [TIME]1415127156[/TIME] --------------- Currently, mysite.com is home page which goes straight to forum. And mysite.com/cmps_index.php is what goes to CMS page. I have to click on "home" from the navbar to go to this page. I want this page to appear first when someone goes to mysite.com and then they can go to forum by clicking on the "forum" on the navbar. How can I do this? |
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For example, this site's homepage title looks like to be "vBulletin.org Forum - The official vBulletin resource". How can I edit this? See the image below to understand what I'm talking about: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/11/34.png |
Not sure about the Meta Keywords issue you have. That might be something you will definitely have to ask over at vbadvanced. You may want to check your settings for the portal though to be sure before asking over there. The second part you should be able to set in your options of vbulletin I think. admincp - "Settings>Options>Site Name / URL / Contact Details" is where you can set that under "Forum Name".
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I know about this. And it is set this way. And it works fine on the forum which was the homepage until now. If I go to forum, the name is what I have set it in the settings as you said. But it isn't showing that same name on the CMS page. Now I have made this CMS the homepage but not being able to edit the forum name on this CMS page. |
The way I have mine done is: Rename vbulletins index.php to index-bak.php. Then rename the cmps_index.php to index.php Then go to Forum Home: Options and make sure it's set to index.
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If I remember there is a setting in CMPS as well for the title, but I do not know where it is right off hand.
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One last important problem remains... How to customize the page title? It is showing to be "sitename.com".. not being able to change it. For example, this site's homepage title looks like to be "vBulletin.org Forum - The official vBulletin resource". How can I edit this? Couldn't find such an option in CMS settings. See the image below to understand what I'm talking about: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/11/34.png |
You would need to edit the <title> tag in the template.
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If you can tell me the name of the template, I might be able to do it. Please note that this homepage that I created in the CMS is a "HTML Code" page. |
Go into styles in your admin cp and search for <title>, It is in the forumhome though.
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This is the forum home template.
Can you tell me what to edit here for page title? Code:
{vb:stylevar htmldoctype} |
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You can do it like this...
Find in FORUMHOME template: HTML Code:
<title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</title> HTML Code:
<title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} - SevenSkins</title> |
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Goto your CMS page .. there will be a pencil icon near the page title .. you can edit it form there.
Title option is towards the bottom of right column. |
The best option would have been to follow Lynne's article on creating your own custom page, then setting that to the homepage via Navigation Manager.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228112 |
If you are using vbadvanced CMPS then you need to edit "adv_portal" template.
find and edit this line: HTML Code:
<title>{vb:raw vboptions.hometitle} <vb:if condition="$pagetitle">- {vb:raw pagetitle}</vb:if></title> |
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One more question. On the homepage, you can choose what modules you want to put there. One of the modules is "popular tags". I enabled it and it is displaying tags that it thinks are important maybe. Is there any way to edit and put tags there that I want? I want to put my site's keywords there as my SEO agency suggests me that I should have my keywords on the home page. |
You can add more tags going to adminCP > Tagging ... but they will have to be linked to threads in the forums .. meaning some of the threads must have these tags.
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Do you recommend something how I can add keywords on the CMS homepage now so fulfil the on-page SEO requirement of having keywords on first page? Without making it look like I have forcefully put those keywords there. |
If you want to add your own tags and make them 'stay' there, you would need to edit the template and add them manually.
To find the template to modify, do this - vboptions > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments > set to Yes . Then go back to your page and view the source code and you will see the name of the template called around your part of the code. (Sometimes the template is the one mentioned at the very top of the page source.) |
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I couldn't understand how to do the rest. So I went to adminCP > vBa CMPS > Edit modules > Popular Tags. And I took screenshot of everything on that page. Please let me know what to edit to make the tags permanent on the homepage. http://prntscr.com/55lhlh http://prntscr.com/55lhsr --------------- Added [DATE]1415799014[/DATE] at [TIME]1415799014[/TIME] --------------- Quote:
This is tags.php file. Where to enter my own tags here? PHP Code:
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That templates are found in Style Manager > find your style > Edit Templates. I don't know they name of the group to expand if this is a vBAdvanced template.
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