change home page to posts page

[olpalu]

Question

is it possible to change the main section in the website to be posts page instead of the actual home page ?
meaning when I open my website home page it shows the posts.

[olpalu]

@hossainemruz please reply, is it possible to change the home page to become the posts page, or should I make a changes inside the theme source code ? in that case, what should I change exactly.
thank you

[hossainemruz]

Unfortunately, not possible currently. You have to fork the theme and make some change to do that.

[olpalu]

what changes should I apply in the theme ? @hossainemruz

[hossainemruz]

Not sure yet. I have to check. I am afraid I won't have time before the weekend.

[BernatBC]

Hi @olpalu,

I found a solution (it's not clean, and there are some tweaks needed), but basically I did a brute force solution to place the posts html to index.html. I created a branch with these changes: https://github.com/BernatBC/toha/tree/testing.

There's probably a cleaner way to do it, but at least works.
Some of the tweaks that are missing in my branch:

• Remove unneeded sections in navbar (you can exclude them by setting hideFromNavbar: true in each section). Probably you won't need to do this, as you won't configure them)
• /posts will still be usable, and most of the posts buttons will redirect them to /posts

If you need more help, just keep in touch with us

[hossainemruz]

I was wondering if it possible to redirect using URL overwrite. That would require least amount of change.

[joyao]

Without a lot of code changes, the most reliable method is to use a rewrite or reverse proxy in the operation field. (ex. Apache, Nginx ...)
In development, the minimal change would be to redirect the root URL in the index.html file, but this is not a reliable approach.

let isRoot = location.pathname == "/";
if (isRoot === true && location.hash.length === 0) {
    window.location.replace("./posts");
}