How to make an editable homepage or redirect the home to another page?

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Hello there!

I’m very new to Ghost CMS and trying to figure out if I can set a new page I create as a home page. This way I would be able to make it into a semi landing page with a picture and text as an introductory. Is there a way to set for example a new page named ‘‘home’’ with permalink ‘‘www.mywebsite.com/ home’’ as the ‘‘www.mywebsite.com’’

Also I noticed the home page changes when a user is logged in, it turns from home page template to the blog page with all of the posts. I would like to keep it that way.

P.S. I am using the Casper theme if that helps.

Apologies in advance if this topic was already discussed I couldn’t find it :) Thanks for the help!

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HI @Lara , welcome to Ghost!

I’ve got a tutorial for setting up a routes file so that / serves a page rather than showing the “home” template (which in Casper is basically just the index of the whole blog).

I’m a little confused by this bit:

I didn’t think that Casper did something like that. Source does do something sort of like that, if you have its layout set to ‘landing page’.

A routes.yaml file (see tutorial) isn’t going to cause the behavior to change on member login. That’d need some editing of the theme’s files, or a bit of javascript trickery in code injection.

p.s. if pasting in URLs, surround them with a backtick (`) or else they’ll get processed into links like what happened to your post. :)

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Sorry for the weird link haha :slight_smile:

Thank you for the post!

For the routes.yaml , can i find this somewhere or do I have to make the file, if so where do I need to make it…in the themes folder?

Also if I want the blog posts to be visible or accsesable to only members I should just probably leave it as is right? And not add a /blog page, since the theme already does that for logged in members…

Hopefully I explained correctly, thanks again!

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The link I gave above has upload directions - you can download your current routes there too as a template. No, not in the theme folder.

Each theme handles layout logic differently, so I’m not sure on your later question - and not sure you’re on Casper :)

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Hey @Cathy_Sarisky,
thanks for sharing your tutorial. In general the routing does work. I used it on a site with Casper as active theme and the menu bar disappeared. This might not be intentional, is it?

I’d be glad if you could share some ideas how to fix that… (Maybe there was an update to the theme?)

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That’s weird. Are you really really sure that you didn’t change something else at the same time? Routing shouldn’t cause the menu to disappear. Link the site?

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Checked again – I forgot to untick the “show title and feature image” button on the given page. Thank you for the routes template!

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I notice that the strategy doesn’t work well with each theme. I have used ‘Source’ and then it works well, but results vary per theme, dependent on what you want navigation and custom features to be. It does come down to some experimenting with various themes, in my experience.

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I’ve got all set up right now and it works like a charm. On my site, there’s the blog entries (as “newsletter-archive”) and one simple page (called “home”) for the landing page.

This is my routes file:

routes:
  /: 
    template: page
    data: page.home

collections:
  /newsletter-archiv/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

Now, when navigating to the newsletter archive, the browser title says “name of website (page 1)”. Why is that? How can I change that?

see: [[notizlab]] (Page 1)