TabRe Portal

A magazine-style front page for a FlatBB forum (门户), built from the forum's own content:

• Hero with the site name, tagline, an optional introduction, the main calls to action and a
  statistics strip (topics, replies, members, online).
• Latest discussions — the newest visible topics, with author, category, replies, views and
  the last reply, using the core topic row design.
• Trending this week — topics created in the last seven days ordered like the Top page
  (likes, replies, views).
• Categories — the directory of top-level categories with description and topic count.
• Newest members and popular tags.
• A Portal link in the sidebar.

Taking over the home page

Let the portal answer the home address in the plugin settings. Visitors landing on / see the
portal; the plain list stays at /latest, and /portal keeps working as a direct address.

The takeover is a documented router.routes filter (no core files are edited). Another plugin
that also claims / will win or lose depending on hook order, so enable only one home takeover
at a time — Admin → Plugins lists active takeovers.

Settings

Notes

• Hidden categories and the topic_list.query filter are respected: the loader is the core
  topic_list_fetch(), so a portal never reveals a topic its reader could not open.
• Users, categories and tags are attached in batches — no queries inside loops.
• Site statistics reuse the core five-minute site_stats() cache; newest members come from the
  same cache, so the portal adds no separate member query.
• The plugin stores nothing and has no tables; disabling it removes the page and the takeover.
• Text is translatable (English source strings) and escaped with h().