Posted by CraftyDevon on December 25, 2009 at 6:20pm
Hey There O.P Team,
I would like to know how the O.P team achieved the display on the Calias demo site. Basically, how did you get everything to display under the headers such as Latest Headlines, Resources, Blogs, and then when you click on one of the menu items, you get the nice display with the teasers/images.
Are these views and such already established? What would I need to do to recreate them if they're not?
Thanks
Devon
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The demo site is based on OP
The demo site is based on OP 1.5 (previous version).
There is no content in the OP when you install it. However, it is a complete package that has all the views, content type, and everything else, set up. All you need is to add content to it. Being a moderately experienced Drupal user, I could not find any major shortcoming of OP as far as the structure is concerned. You get pretty much a ready-made site when you install it cleanly (that means, without seeing any error message!).
See my site in the bottom, its almost the default installation, I've just added a few blocks to it using Context.
sTattler.com
How did you add blocks?
Hi stattalk,
How did you add those blocks which say "SUbscribe", "popular blogs" and "latest stat job offers" the are not there in openpublish 1.6. any leads to how to add blocks using context?
Those are usual drupal blocks
Those are usual drupal blocks. You create those block as usual and add them at appropriate places (right sidebar, or wherever) using Context. Try, its really easy. But make sure, you are using the default OP 1.6 theme. Contexts do not work with any previous versions of OP.
sTattler.com
tnx worked a bit
Hi stattalk,
Thanks for your advice. I was able to add a poll module to the right pane using the following steps. 1. Add poll module and enable it 2. Enabled polls in context 3. Added a block 2 the front page on the right pane from the blocks panel. 4. Added a poll using add content type = poll. I wanted to create a new section called Reviews. Here are the steps i followed. Cloned the "Article" content type and renamed to reviews. Cloned the Article content type in context and renamed it to reviews. Added a new block on the left panel using the blocks function. Now i can see the block called reviews but when i do an add content > reviews, it does not show up in the blocks pane on the front page. [When i do add article, it shows up under latest headlines on the front page.] What am i doing wrong? I am missing something here? U can see the attached screenshot below..
You forgot to attach
You forgot to attach screenshot. But anyway, content "reviews" is not showing up on frontpage probably due to the theme settings. I mean, you probably need to declare that in the appropriate place in the theme. I know nothing about theaming.. so somebody else might be able to suggest in this regard :)
sTattler.com