Vazco: Vasco Mainpage - Where do I edit the html of the page????

I have been customizing my homepage using the Vasco Mainpage plug-in within a custom template. I want to edit the landing page of my site so the JOIN button is nice and prominent with a big image, but still have boxes of widget content below. After many hours of editing and trial and error, I thought I had a pretty ok understanding of the custom plug-in folder structure (working within a theme), but I can't find the main index page where I can add content above the widget boxes! It seems like it should be so obvious. I can find a "vasco_mainpage.php" file that looks good but it's buried in vasco_mainpage/views/default/canvas/layouts alongside new_index.php and I can't see how either of them are called up. I am supposed to be handing over these template files yesterday but still am stymied!

Also....anyone understand why my Izap video widget is showing up twice? Here's a link:Scroll down, it's in the second row.

http://69.163.154.68/

Thank you. I promise to write a little newbie help checklist when I'm through with this project. I'm sure there are others out there with my html brain who can't sort out the php logic of this amazing but confounding system.

Michał Zacher
399 days ago

Spitfire, widgets are added to vazco_mainpage via API, dependant on version of the plugin. With newest version it's enought to add view in start.php or via handler in another plugin, following syntax used in start.php.

If you want to add custom code, you can add it in vazco_mainpage/views/default/canvas/layouts/vazco_mainpage.php. Please don't use caching of main page then though.

There are a few additional customization instructions in forums in vazco_mainpage's plugin group on elggdev.com.

spitfire72
399 days ago

Here's the crux of the question: if I edit

vazco_mainpage/views/default/canvas/layouts/vazco_index.php (referred to above as vazco_mainpage.php but that doesn't exist)

within my custom theme, here:

hhred2/views/default/vazco_mainpage/views/default/canvas/layouts/vazco_index.php

Nothing happens!

My theme (hhred2)( is below the vasco_mainpage plug-in so it will display the styles I have and other things, but I can't modify the views within the vazco_mainpage plug-in inside my theme. I have tried reading about this in the plugin group but am afraid my question is far too basic! Your help is much appreciated.

Michał Zacher
398 days ago

Spitfire, please make sure to turn off mainpage caching in plugin settings - otherwise your mainpage will be in cache/mainpage.php folder (please don't apply modifications there as they will be overwritten when you change settings of vazco_mainpage)

spitfire72
398 days ago

I found it. Once I edit vazco_index, I have to put it into the top level of the vazco_mainpage folder within my theme. This is what is so confusing about customizing ELGG - where the default files are pulled from and why. Yes, I've had caching turned off from the get-go and I refresh the cache each time I make a change. Thanks.

Michał Zacher
397 days ago

spitfire, if you have any of our plugins installed, you can always invoke page with ?debug=1 This will tell you where all views are pulled from exactly.