History: Custom Home

            {syntax type="markdown"  editor="wysiwyg"} ## Custom Home Page

By default, TikiWiki uses the wiki page named **HomePage** as your site's home page. A default HomePage is created automatically during installation. You can change your home page by using one of these methods:

- To select a different TikiWiki feature to use as the home page (such as the forum or an image gallery), select the feature in the **Home Page** field of the ((General Admin))->Navigation tab.
- To use a different URL as the home page, enable the **Use URL Index** option on the ((General Admin))->Navigation tab and include the complete URL (Use different URL as homepage).
- Use the {ALINK(aname=Custom_Home_Page_Template)}custom home page template{ALINK}
- To have a home page assigned for each / by group enable **Use group homepages**. Check ((Groups|Group Home Page)) for details.



###- Custom Home Page Template 
*Note: Removed from Tiki 14*
TikiWiki includes a custom home page template (tiki-custom_home.tpl) that can be used as the the home page. To enable this feature:

1. On the ((Admin Features)) page, enable the **Custom Home** option.
2. On the ((General Admin)) page, select **Custom Home** as the Home Page.
3. Edit the tiki-custom_home.tpl, as necessary. You can include XHTML or SMARTY coding. See (Edit Template) for more information.



If you want to use a WYSIWYG editor to create your CustomHome, then temporarily rename tiki-custom_home.tpl to tiki-custom_home.html, open it in Dreamweaver or a similar editor, make your changes, and then rename it back to tiki-custom_home.tpl. (You can even modify Dreamweaver to accept TPL files as HTML files. See its documentation for details.)

### Group Homes

Similarly, you can set up group home pages, where upon login, users are sent to the home page of their group. If they are a member of several groups, the ((Default group)) is chosen. Please see ((Groups))