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.

This plugin is especially useful when used with DiscPage.

Installation

Follow those directions using https://github.com/sylque/discourse-home-page.git as the repository URL.

Settings

• discourse_home_page_enabled: switch the plugin on/off

• discourse_home_page_path: path of the home page. For example /t/topic/12 will set the home page to topic 12 and /c/5 will set the home page to category 5

  Warning: /t/12 is not a valid topic path and will cause errors.

  You can support localized home pages by adding more values to discourse_home_page_path. For example, the following will redirect French-speaking users (as detected by Discourse) to topic 13, German-speaking users to topic 14 and all other users to topic 12.

    /t/topic/12
    fr,/t/topic/13
    de,/t/topic/14
  

Limitations

Address Bar

When the home page points to a topic, the url in the address bar is changed to the topic url.

Example: if your Discourse url is www.mydiscourse.org and you set the home page to be /t/mytopic/12, then any user coming to www.mydiscourse.org will see www.mydiscourse.org/t/mytopic/12 in the address bar.

Crawlers

As far as I can see, Facebook and Twitter crawlers (at least) do not see the home page redirection and perform their analysis on the default Discourse home page.

Warning

This plugin ia based on a hack. There is no certainty it will keep working in future versions of Discourse, even though I'll do my best to maintain it.

There is this line in Discourse which might cause an issue, but I couldn't get my Discourse instance to run through it. Please let me know if you can.