Setting up your homepage template

To create a new home page, first create a new page with any name from the WordPress backend and set its Template to “Home”. This page should not have any content as this content will not be rendered on the frontend of your website.

To change your front page, go to  Settings > Reading and select the page that you just created from the drop down.

 

To customize the home page to fit your requirements, go to Inpsirebook Settings and select the “Home Page” tab.

The Inspirebook home page has four sections that can be set up, viz. Welcome Info, Featured Members, Featured Groups & Blog Posts.

Welcome Info

This section has three fields

  1. Welcome Title : This title will be displayed right at the top of the page, or below the Slider, if that is enabled.
  2. Upload Featured Content Icon : This tiny image will be used anytime your featured content needs an icon.
  3. Featured Content : Showcase some of your altest articles in this area. You can feature upto three articles, each with their own icons.

Featured Members

Shows Buddypress featured members. It has the following fields

  1. Show Section : Uncheck if you don’t want to show this section.
  2. Featured Members Content : This content will appear next to the thumbnails of your Newest/most Active/most Popular members.
  3. Featured Members Type : Choose which selection of members will appear in this section on your home page.

Featured Group

Shows the Buddypress featured groups. Just like featured members it has the following fields

  1. Show Section : Uncheck if you don’t want to show this section.
  2. Featured Group Content :  This content will appear next to the thumbnails of your Newest/most Active/most Popular Groups.
  3. Featured Group Type : Choose which selection of Groups will appear in this section on your home page.

Blog Posts

Fetches the posts by category name with featured images and has these fields.

  1. Show Section : Uncheck if you don’t want to show this section.
  2. Blog Title : Title of this section on your homepage.
  3. Select Category : Choose the category from which the posts will be fetched from.