How to set up your home page

Home

The Home is the first screen of your app, right after the launch screen. You build it with widgets: blocks that show your latest content, links to your key pages, and more.

In My App, open Structure, and click Home.

Each card is a widget, in the order of the screen: here, the latest articles, a block of links, the podcasts and the videos.

Add a widget

To add one, click the plus sign where you want it in the list. The menu lists the widgets your app can show… content from a section, links, a search bar, your social links, a newsletter sign-up, a separator, custom code, your legal links, or a text.

Choose Content, then the section to display: here, Sports.

You can keep a single category of it, or all of them.

The widget is added, and its settings open.

Content widget

Choose its template: Visual Cards, Immersive Card Banner, Slideshow, and more… Slideshow turns the latest articles into large cards that scroll.

Display the title shows the section's name, with a View all link.

Number of items sets how many articles it shows… and Sorting option, which ones: the default order, the most commented, or at random.

The Source tab changes the section, or the category, it draws from.

Link widget

Now a Link widget, right below it: click the plus sign under the card, and choose Link.

Its templates go from a list of icons to grids, slideshows and carousels.

For each link, choose a destination: a section of your app, like Local… an external link, an action, like a call, a text message or an email, or an app in the stores.

Then give it a title… and an icon: search the icon collections, here for a newspaper.

Add a link adds the next one, here to the podcasts, with its own icon.

The links appear on the Home.

Organize your widgets

Back in the list, each card has its actions: Duplicate makes a copy… and the trash deletes one, after a confirmation.

To change the order, drag a card up or down: here, Sports moves to the top of the Home.

Show or hide a widget

Off hides a widget from your app without deleting it: it stays in the list, with its settings… so you can keep it ready for the right moment, like an event or an offer, and switch it back on.

To make your changes visible to your users, publish your app's update from the Publish menu.