How to create a Page node

Paul B · Dec 21, 2010

Brogan submitted a new resource:

How to create a Page node (version 1.0) - Add basic HTML pages to your installation.

To create a new page go to ACP -> Applications -> Create New Page

Select the various tabs and configure the fields.

Enter a URL (e.g. example-page) – this will be the URL of the page, for example: https://xenforo.com/community/pages/example-page/

Enter the title, e.g. Welcome To My Forum

Enter a description – this is optional and will appear as muted text below the title (see the screenshots below)

Select the Parent Node – this can be the root, a category, forum or...

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Peggy · Dec 21, 2010

Good article, tho I'm afraid will be a bit confusing for "newbies".

GofD · Feb 18, 2011

I think this is pretty straightforward! Thanks for putting it together, Brogan.

Any other tips and tricks on putting together pages?

gldtn · Feb 18, 2011

Brogan, would you happen to know of any guides on how to pull the rss feeds per forum into these pages? This would be great to build my own home page

Paul B · Feb 18, 2011

You can use this template mod to do that: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/add-an-rss-feed-block-to-the-sidebar.341/

You can see it in action here: http://cliptheapex.com/

You will just need to edit the css to suit, depending on how and where you want to display it.

gordy · Mar 6, 2011

What can pages do and not do ?

Paul B · Mar 6, 2011

They support HTML and PHP.

I've got pages on my site using JavaScript and some of Google's API's.
I've seen others on here who have developed mini PHP applications.

gordy · Mar 6, 2011

Brogan said:
They support HTML and PHP.

I've got pages on my site using JavaScript and some of Google's API's.

So it's plausible they can be used as static or dynamic pages non-forum pages that match the look and feel of one's forum theme/skin? Can they exist outside of the forum root dir ?

Paul B · Mar 6, 2011

They match the forum/style exactly - the same elements are used to build the page.
You can see that here: http://xenforo.com/community/pages/example-page/
Some more examples are here - click on the node navigation menu on the left to see more: http://www.cliptheapex.com/community/pages/2011-race-hub/

They exist within the forum structure - you will notice the Forums tab is highlighted when viewing a Page.

TerminalAddict · Mar 6, 2011

gordy said:
So it's plausible they can be used as static or dynamic pages non-forum pages that match the look and feel of one's forum theme/skin? Can they exist outside of the forum root dir ?

yes, no
examples:
http://www.fps.net.nz/community/pages/servers/
uses some custom written php to query tf2 server and return an array per server. I then have a custom template which does all the display. Uses PageCallBack

http://www.fps.net.nz/community/pages/Home/
does some custom php to get steam stats. Does some custom php to get the latest post from a forum section (latest give away), does some custom php to query a forum and get a list of threads (previous give aways). Uses PageCallBack

http://www.fps.net.nz/community/pages/thanks-for-donating/
boring old html typed into a box

No they cannot exist outside of the forum structure.
For my home page I have a customer php page that simply redirects to correct url

TerminalAddict · Mar 6, 2011

Brogan said:
....
They exist within the forum structure - you will notice the Forums tab is highlighted when viewing a Page.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/pages-vs-navigation-highlighting.13196/

I've just asked about this

edit .. quoted the wrong bit

gordy · Mar 6, 2011

Thanks all

secnam · Mar 12, 2011

so how do you put php code into the pages?

Paul B · Mar 12, 2011

You use the PHP Callback function.

secnam · Mar 12, 2011

is there a manual for this?

erich37 · Mar 20, 2011

Enter your markup (HTML/CSS code) in the Template HTML field

- is there an example of how the html would look like ?
- how to get the "Sidebar" into a page?

the strange thing with "Pages" is, that the navigation-Tab "Forums" is still showing as active.
This looks a bit confusing as when looking at the page, I am actually not in the Forum.

Paul B · Mar 21, 2011

erich37 said:
- is there an example of how the html would look like ?
- how to get the "Sidebar" into a page?

Every page is different.
You enter the html you want for your page.

the strange thing with "Pages" is, that the navigation-Tab "Forums" is still showing as active.
This looks a bit confusing as when looking at the page, I am actually not in the Forum.

This is the designed behaviour.

erich37 · Mar 21, 2011

I know that every page is different, which is the reason I was asking for an example.

Anyway, the designed structure of having the Forum-Tab active at a "Page" does not look very professional IMHO.
It would be better if there would be a Main-Tab named "Pages" or something like that.

gldtn · Mar 21, 2011

erich37 said:
the strange thing with "Pages" is, that the navigation-Tab "Forums" is still showing as active.
This looks a bit confusing as when looking at the page, I am actually not in the Forum.

U can do something like this to get a page into it's own tab.

erich37 · Mar 21, 2011

looks quite complicated.... just to be able to create a "Page" outside of the Forum-structure.......

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