[GardenFork]

Hi Everyone,

I’ve imported a ning site to BuddyPress, and I’d like to have the Forums page be the home page – IOW the landing page – the page that loads when you come to the BuddyPress site i’ve installed. http://www.gardenfork.tv/forum/

I am not great at the coding side of BP and WP, so if you could walk us through step by step, that be great. I know this might be a pain to write out, and I can’t buy you a beer as thank you ( unless you are in the NYC area ), but I bet many would benefit from a tutorial.

Many Thanks, eric.

[Sarah Gooding]

You can change the default tab open by editing your wp-config.php file. Add this:

`define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘forum’ );`

This info is from the documentation: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

[GardenFork]

thanks for that prompt response! i added that line to the wp-config.php file, but it does not make the Forum page the home page. maybe i’m doing something wrong.

i added it to the wp-config file in the folder the forum install is in. http://www.gardenfork.tv/forum/ is there another file i should be editing.

thx, eri c

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

I believe that constant sets the default page for the /members/admin profile link, not the root of the site. In the current version of BuddyPress you will have to write some custom code to set forums as your front page, but in the upcoming 1.3 version we have fixed this in core.