<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ryan D'Baisse</b> <<a href="mailto:ryan.dbaisse@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ryan.dbaisse@gmail.com
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3. HOW TO REMOVE 'HOME PAGE' FROM TOPIC LISTING?<br>When someone visits the forum, they always see the Home Page as the<br>first topic. This is confusing. Is there any way to suppress this?<br>Maybe add text to the page for "No topics in this forum yet" if that
<br>is the only page?</blockquote></div><br>I just installed SimpleForum on a wiki running V2.0.12.<br>
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On the HomePage of my forum's wikigroup, I changed the (:pagelist...:)
to specify <span style="font-weight: bold;">link=forum</span>. So along with including
commentboxstyled.php and forumstyled.php in the SimpleForum section,
near the bottom of my config.php, I have<br>
$SearchPatterns['forum'][] = '!\.(All)?Recent(Changes|Uploads|Comments)$!';<br>
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$SearchPatterns['forum'][] = '!\.Group(Print)?(Header|Footer|Attributes)$!';<br>
$SearchPatterns['forum'][] = '!\.HomePage$!';<br>
$SearchPatterns['forum'][] = '!\.SideBar$!';<br>
which you see expands on the code for link=normal, additionally
excluding .HomePage and .SideBar from the list of forum topic pages.<br>
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The approach of defining <span style="font-weight: bold;">link=forum</span> allows you to explicitly exclude all wikigroup pages that aren't actually topic pages.<br>
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Another tweak I made was to put (:nogroupfooter:) at the top of my
RecentChanges page, since a visitor might see that page and be confused
by the forum's form.<br>
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