Image, tool and other widgets control project home page, login page and sign up page content.
The type of widgets you can use depends on whether you are trying to add them to the login page or the homepage (for either desktop or mobile). It's important to consider this when updating the look and feel of the site.
The table below demonstrates which widget type you are able to have on which page:
| Login page |
Homepage (desktop) |
Homepage (mobile) |
|
| Image widgets | |||
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Front page - the main image that shows on the home page and login page with an image and text |
Yes |
Yes | Yes |
| Image - a static image | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Carousel - rotates through a maximum of 4 images | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tool widgets | |||
| Latest topics - shows the most recently commented on discussions | - | Yes | Yes |
| Selected topics - shows the threads from selected forum topic(s) | - | Yes | - |
| Latest blogs - shows the most recently commented on blog(s) | - | Yes | - |
| Consumer group blogs - shows the blogs from a specific consumer group | - | Yes | - |
| Latest polls - shows the latest polls to vote on/results | - | Yes | Yes |
| Open polls - shows the current open poll for the user to respond to | - | Yes | - |
| News feed - shows the currently published news items on the platform | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| My activity - shows the activities available to the user to complete | - | Yes | Yes |
| Other widgets | |||
| Formatted text - a text only widget | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Active members - shows the users most recently online, gives access to the active members page | - | Yes | - |
| Latest credits - shows the latest prize winners | Yes | Yes | - |
| T&C's - pulls through the site T&C's | Yes | Yes | - |
| Twitter - select a specific Twitter feed to display on the homepage | - | Yes | - |
If you are using 'promote account' to get new users on the platform, the sign-up page can also be customised with some widgets in addition to the necessary sign-up information.
When you want to change the look and feel of the platform through changing the widgets, you can either add a new widget, or edit an existing widget.
You can set which page you are editing through the sub tabs shown below the ‘Layouts’ heading:
You are therefore able to set different Signup/Login page layouts for different projects.