alphamale Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) Hi, Is Pages still a thing? I see it in my "manage purchases" and can buy it but no real mention of it on the wpb homepage. I asked in the support forum for advice on how to make an article homepage which drags content from a particular forum "News & Rumours" but from what I've seen on marketplace , cast see anything that would fit. Am I right in thinking that I could buy "Pages" and then have that as the homepage , have various blocks on the homepage which pulls from the forum I mentioned and purge them as new posts are available? OR.. Could I not buy "Blog" and have posts pulled from a particular forum as above that auto populate a blog post? If not then could I have blog where it is the homepage but call it "Home" in the menu? And just have it where I can post the blogs but people can comment? Edited February 21, 2021 by alphamale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 26 minutes ago, alphamale said: Is Pages still a thing? I see it in my "manage purchases" and can buy it but no real mention of it on the wpb homepage. I asked in the support forum for advice on how to make an article homepage which drags content from a particular forum "News & Rumours" but from what I've seen on marketplace , cast see anything that would fit. Am I right in thinking that I could buy "Pages" and then have that as the homepage , have various blocks on the homepage which pulls from the forum I mentioned and purge them as new posts are available? Yes You want Pages. You would create a single page, and then add a topic feed from News & Rumours. 26 minutes ago, alphamale said: OR.. Could I not buy "Blog" and have posts pulled from a particular forum as above that auto populate a blog post? If not then could I have blog where it is the homepage but call it "Home" in the menu? And just have it where I can post the blogs but people can comment? I would not recommend blogs, unless you have a community of bloggers. alphamale, GazzaGarratt and The Old Man 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphamale Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) Cheers for the reply. Just out of interest, whats wrong with the blog idea? It looks pretty perfect to me? (see attachment) So Pages is the best to use? Could I get it to look similar as blogs as it pulls it from the News & Rumours forum? Do you have a link to where I can see Pages in action? Cant seem to find it anywhere Matt Edited February 21, 2021 by alphamale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 That blog is Pages in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 36 minutes ago, alphamale said: Cheers for the reply. Just out of interest, whats wrong with the blog idea? It looks pretty perfect to me? (see attachment) IPS uses Pages for its Company Blog. That should give you a hint ... Meddysong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meddysong Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 46 minutes ago, alphamale said: Do you have a link to where I can see Pages in action? Providers: https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/ Guides: Release notes: https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ And, as you've noted, the company blog: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/ alphamale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphamale Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) Thanks for the replies. So the blog system is using pages too. That looks perfect then. So I can buy Pages , have posts from "News & Rumours", which I will hide from the forum list for everybody apart from admin and moderators, and have them automatically populating the homepage (Pages). Will it be possible for the latest post in "News & Rumours" to go to the top, as in first to be seen? How would it truncate older posts? Edited February 21, 2021 by alphamale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meddysong Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 You might be well served to get a 14-day free demo account, create a couple of forums including one which will feature in a feed, and then set up a homepage with Pages. That'll give you an idea of what the possibilities are and whether they're what you're looking for before you spend $100 on the app: https://invisioncommunity.com/clientarea/demo/ alphamale and Nathan Explosion 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphamale Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 I did try the demo and have now purchased “pages”. Just going to try and get my head around it. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphamale Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 I did try the demo and have now purchased “pages”. Just going to try and get my head around it. Cheers Im either really stupid or I can’t get my head around this. Can’t see how I can have a home page that looks like the first image I posted, that pulls it from a forum called “news & rumours” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted February 22, 2021 Management Share Posted February 22, 2021 I will do a video for you tomorrow. SC36DC, bfarber, Morgin and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphamale Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 Thanks so much 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphamale Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, Matt said: I will do a video for you tomorrow. Did you get around to making the video @Matt? Appreciate you are busy Matt Edited February 23, 2021 by alphamale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abobader Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 On 2/23/2021 at 12:43 AM, Matt said: I will do a video for you tomorrow. Hi Matt, did you have time to do that video? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtech Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Sorry i couldn't resist: No pun intended 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 45 minutes ago, abobader said: Hi Matt, did you have time to do that video? Thanks. abobader 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymond Cox Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 I'm wondering the same thing. I'm trying to get an old website of mine back up, but I want it to have a homepage other than the forum for news and information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Wikman Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 You mean to show a start page rather than having the forum as your start page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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