How to Default to Categories Page

jasonrocks7

I'd like my main page to be categories.php and not index.php. How can I change this? I put a redirect code in the index.php file, but that caused a problem. When I clicked on one of the headings on categories.php, it wouldn't work and forwarded me back to categories.php.

Any help will be appreciated. My site is http://postyouradlinkfree.info

Hamed

Try this: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/249/Category-Page-First

It might work

cioop44

Hi, the above plugin not only made categories my default page, but it also disabled my threads list tab. What I did, I've changed index.php file name to categories.php in root folder and in the theme folder files I changed line 21 in categories.php file from 'index.php' to 'categories.php' and I've also added two exceptions to menu.php file on line 30:
if ($Tab['Text'] == 'Categories') $Tab['Url'] = 'index.php';
if ($Tab['Text'] == 'Threads list') $Tab['Url'] = 'categories.php';
I use Vanilla forum 1.1.5a

jasonrocks7

thanks

jasonrocks7

I tried this and it didn't seem to work for me. When I change the index.php file to categories.php in the root folder, is there no index file now? Do you do your hacks AND install the Category-Page-First or not? Any help will be appreciated.

cioop44

Not exactly, I swapped the names of the files. I renamed category.php to index.php and renamed the file that originally was named index.php into category.php. So the number of files stays the same.