Set the plugin view as the home page

[crisferar]

Hello, I am working with wordpress and wp-mvc and I would like to know if it is possible or how can you establish a plugin view as wordpress home page.
Thank you

[cyberscribe]

Plugin pages are bound to the /controller/action/id URL structure. However, there is nothing to stop you including a view in e.g. a short code that you define and use on the homepage.

[akamadr]

I know it's bit late, but maybe someone else will look for it.

In public controller (ie. products_controller.php) I created method list()

public function list() {
	$this->view_rendered = true;

	// Params are shortcode atts
	$params = $this->params;

	$this->process_params_for_search();
	$collection = $this->model->paginate( $params );
	$this->set( 'objects', $collection['objects'] );

	if ( $params['pagination'] ) {
		// Set pagination
		$this->pagination = array(
			'total'             => $collection['total_pages'],
			'current'           => $collection['page'],
		);

		unset( $collection['objects'] );
		$this->pagination = array_merge( $collection, $this->pagination );
	}

	$response = $this->render_to_string( 'products/index' );

	return $response;
}

And then I create shortcode and use MvcDispatcher to return rendered shortcode content.

add_shortcode( 'products', products_shortcode' );
function products_shortcode( $atts ) {
	$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
		'controller'	=> 'products',
		'action'		=> 'list', // We're pointing to method created above
		'page'		=> get_query_var( 'page', 1 ),
		'per_page'	=> get_option( 'posts_per_page' ),
		'pagination'	=> false,
	), $atts, 'products' );

	return MvcDispatcher::dispatch( $atts );
}

Hope you find it helpfull 😊