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Create your Homepages (Alternative Frontpage Settings)

Open Social
Open Social Open Social • 15 February 2018

In Open Social you can choose to have ANY page on the site as your homepage. The most popular choice is to use a Landing Page or a Dashboard. In this section, you’ll learn how to configure your frontpages as a Site Manager.

How do you configure the homepage?

Firstly, choose or create the page you want as your homepage and give it a clear URL (for example: www.mycommunity.com/welcome). Next, go to the Site Manager Dashboard and choose "Alternative Frontpage Settings” (direct URL:/admin/config/alternative_frontpage).

 

This page allows you to create and edit a homepage per each user role.

Let’s create a new Frontpage setting with the “+ Add Frontpage setting” button in the top right corner.

There, you can determine the label, the frontpage path (the URL), and the role the page should apply to. Bear in mind that the label will appear in the browser tab!

For example, if we want to create a standard homepage for all logged-in users, we could add the Label "Welcome" and the frontpage path for the page we have created at www.mycommunity.com/welcome

Top tip #1: You only have to enter the last part of the URL, so if the URL of the page is 'www.mycommunity.getopensocial.com/welcome', you only have to insert the '/welcome' part.

Top tip #2: If you create a frontpage for one role, it will automatically become the homepage for the other roles with higher permissions (AKA further down the list), unless you create a separate frontpage setting for them. Therefore, if you have created the frontpage above, it will automatically be the frontpage for the Authenticated user and Verified User, Content Manager & Site Manager, until/unless you have created separate frontpages for them

Confused about the user roles? Learn more about them here.

In practice, you will normally add just two homepages. One is for Anonymous users (your public homepage) and one is for Authenticated users (all members of the community)