Customizing OpenScholar front page

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chemistry2004's picture

I would like to replace the vimeo video by my own video in the open scholar front page. Where should I edit? Sorry, I am new to drupal

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There are a few of approaches

dmcw's picture

There are a few of approaches here (and maybe others I haven't thought of):

  • You could create a page or a view with your own design for the frontpage and then go to admin/settings/site-information and change the default front page setting

  • You could create a block at admin/build/block and then edit/override the sitewide_front context at admin/build/context/list to include your block. When you edit that view you'll see that there are a few blocks in there that make up the front page, including a block called "OpenScholar: Video Info" This block is generated by code (I think) and so it can't be edited through the Drupal UI.

  • A more technical approach might involve working directly with the openscholar_front feature, but that might be a bit much.

No matter what approach you take, if you are very new to drupal, I think a good place to start would be working with key things like CCK and views. From there a knowledge of contexts and features is very helpful in understanding how to customize Open Scholar.

Hope this helps!

For the change to frontpage

jbkc85's picture

For the change to frontpage in admin/settings/site-information default front page setting, I have actually ran into issues when changing that to a different front page. For some reason when doing this the scholar sites created underneath could not handle their own default 'front page'.

Anyway I hope this can be helpful..

Thanks,
Jason

@jbkc85-gdo it should be much

ferdi's picture

@jbkc85-gdo it should be much better in the new version we just released.

Thanks!

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