front page questions

[brynn]

Hi Friends,
I currently have a single article on my front page (https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php).  Lurkalot tells me there's a way to configure it, to make it look more like a page, than an article on a page.  So that's what I'm trying to do.

But looking at the front page settings, I'm just as confused as I was almost 5 years ago, when I first started.  I've looked at the TP Docs page (https://www.tinyportal.net/docs/index.php?topic=239).  But it really only explains a couple of settings, and not this one.  I'm sure I'll have other questions as I go, but for now, these are the first questions.

What does it mean about 'front panel will be displayed before or after content'?  Does that refer to time, meaning that some part is loaded before another part?  Or does it mean some part is going to be on top of another part?

Also, what exactly is the "front panel", relative to the contents?

Thanks 

[lurkalot]

Got to nip out for a while, and will come back to this with a better explanation shortly.

I will just say, what you need to do is create a front panel block, of the same type as your article, then turn off the article.

I'll be back. 

[lurkalot]

OK, back.

I would set Front page settings. (What to display on frontpage: to Frontpanel).

And set:  Use frame style, but not title style. On the block which replaces your article.


Frontpanel blocks are basically blocks that can only display on the front page and nowhere else. Where other panel blocks can display anywhere, even the front page.

Frontpanel will be added before content:  The front panel will show above other content, (content being) promoted posts, or articles.

Frontpanel will be added after content:  The front panel will show below other content, (content being) promoted posts, or articles.

Upper, Lower, Top, and Bottom blocks will all show as normal if enabled.

[brynn]

Oh, there's no rush 

Well I want the contents of the article to be on the front page.  Only that.  So somehow that needs to be transferred to something besides an article.

Ooohh, I think I did it.  Look...

I didn't paste in the code yet.  But is that what you mean?  It's only a little bit different from the article.  But it's an improvement.

As far as my question about front panel vs contents.  Right now, I have it set to hide the front panel.  Kind of confusing.

[brynn]

I wonder where that white space is coming from, between where the text will be, and the footer?

Maybe it will go away, when I put the article code in there?

[wildenborch]

Something like this? http://www.rodebaert.com/index.php

I have the tinyportal Frontpage settings to only show the Frontpanel
In the blocks I have turned of the left and right menu (for guests and for this example only....)
In the FrontPanel Block I have created an Html / Javascript code article

[brynn]

Something like this? http://www.rodebaert.com/index.php

Ooh, fancy!  Yeah, something like that.  Except the page that's going to go in there (original article contents) is almost all text.  Well, there are a couple of images, just to make it more interesting, but they are more like theme images than photos.

I'll transfer the html shortly.  I just want to make sure this is what Mick was suggesting.

[lurkalot]

I'll transfer the html shortly.  I just want to make sure this is what Mick was suggesting.

That's it Brynn, you are on the right track. 

[wildenborch]

BTW I choose the FrontPanel and not featured article because the featured article would show some "article info"  like posted in ....

If you use TP version 1.41 you have to "enable" Html / Javascript code
See this topic: https://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=36019.msg292135;topicseen#new

[lurkalot]

BTW I choose the FrontPanel and not featured article because the featured article would show some "article info"  like posted in ....

If you use TP version 1.41 you have to "enable" Html / Javascript code
See this topic: https://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=36019.msg292135;topicseen#new

This is how Brynn originally had it set, but now adding it to a block instead.  If the code is already in a html article, a simple copy and paste into the HTML/JavaScript block should be ok.  It was only the editor that was removed, not the functionality. 

We don't have the editor added to HTML/JavaScript blocks here on this site, we don't need it.