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Custom Home Page

By default, TikiWiki uses the wiki page named HomePage as your site's home page. A default HomePage is created automatically during installation. You can change your home page by using one of these methods:

• To select a different TikiWiki feature to use as the home page (such as the forum or an image gallery), select the feature in the Home Page field of the General Admin page.
• To use a different URL as the home page, enable the Use URI as Home Page option on the General Admin page and include the complete URL.
• Use the custom home page template
• To have a home page assigned for each / by group see Group Home Page

Custom Home Page Template

TikiWiki includes a custom home page template (tiki-custom_home.tpl) that can be used as the the home page. To enable this feature:

1. On the Admin Features? page, enable the Custom Home option.
2. On the General Admin page, select Custom Home as the Home Page.
3. Edit the tiki-custom_home.tpl, as necessary. You can include XHTML or SMARTY coding. See (Edit Template) for more information.

If you want to use a WYSIWYG editor to create your CustomHome, then temporarily rename tiki-custom_home.tpl to tiki-custom_home.html, open it in Dreamweaver or a similar editor, make your changes, and then rename it back to tiki-custom_home.tpl. (You can even modify Dreamweaver to accept TPL files as HTML files. See its documentation for details.)

Similarly, you can set up group home pages, where upon login, users are sent to the home page of their group. If they are a member of several groups, the default group is chosen. Please see Groups