Good day!
I am new to OpenPublish and Drupal but am making pretty good progress setting up my site and understanding all of the underpinnings. There are a few things though that have me stumped and I am hoping someone could help out:
1) The Taxonomy block that appears in the right sidebar of an article – How can I rename it to something that makes more sense to a layman (i.e. “Related stories” or the like)? If I configure the block and enter an alternate name in “Block Title” it still says “Taxonomy” when the the page / article / homepage is viewed.
2) When viewing a feed item, is there a way to include a “more” link or something that takes the visitor to the original source?
3) When viewing an articles section, how can the name of the page be changed to something besides “Articles”? For instance, I have menu items for News, Politics, etc that take you to a listing of the stories. I would like the listing to have the same heading as the menu item.
For reference, this is the site I am working with: http://www.thorntontimes.com/
Thank you in advance!
Tony
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Maybe I can help
Hello Tony,
Great looking site. I'd like to give you some tips on item number 3. If you have the pathauto module installed, you can actually configure the way each content type should display in the URL (i.e. a user-friendly url name). If you go to "Administer/Clean URLs and click on the Aliases URLs, you can configure each content type to have a clean url name (example: for News articles, you can configure pathauto to display them as "news/[title-raw]" which will give you a friendly name as "news/the-title-of-your-news-article.
I hope this is what you were asking about.
Item number one I would think you can add a block title to be displayed in stead of TAXONOMY. I don't have the system installed so I can't tell whether you can configure the block to give it a more friendly name.
thanks,
Mario Hernandez
http://designsdrive.com
Thank you for the reply,
Thank you for the reply, Mario!
I am not wanting to rewrite the URLs as much as just change the header of the section. For instance, when someone clicks news on the top menu, I would like the header on the articles list to say something more descriptive. The attached screenshot kind of explains it.
Tony
The news articles displayed in the "News" page, are they collected via a View? How is that page populated by the news articles? If you are using some sort of view, you can easily assign a title to the page on the view settings. If you are not using a view to create that page, did you create the page by hand?
Bear in mind that I am new to
Bear in mind that I am new to Drupal / OpenPublish so what I say may not be correct. :-)
The sections are being populated automatically, I presume by taxonomy or something. I just added a new menu and the articles just start populating the section.
So, you've solved one of my
So, you've solved one of my problems, as I'm not able yet to populate a section identified by a menu entry... I'm really interested by the process you've followed to create 'new menu' and link contents to its entries..?
Considering the word 'Articles' that appear at the top of 'articles pages', it seems it's the associated view title. If you set the 'devel' module to be active, you should be able to access contents associated views directly from content pages. Either, access it throught administer - structure - views. Edit 'articles' view, and change default title to anything you like (don't forget to record change, first by 'update', second by 'record' on the next line).
I don't see any means to get a section specific message through this process, but anyway it's where this message is recorded by default in OP1.6.
Regards,
Thierry
Sorry for the slow reply!
Sorry for the slow reply! Kind of got lost here. :-)
Populating... That was actually pretty much done automatically. I created a new menu item by going to Structure, Menus Primary Links and then creating one for news, politics, sports, etc.
Then, when I publish an article, most of the times the system puts them in the right place. If not, I go into the Calais tab for the story and modify the Calais Document Category to match up with one of the sections.
I do agree that it seems to be related to the views... I copied the articles view and named one news and customized the titel but from there I don't know how to get that then associated with the right stories and a menu item. It is baffling!
Also still hoping someone can help with item 1 and 2 above.
Thanks!
Tony
Changing the Taxonomy Block Title
Tony,
This may be a silly question, but when you're logged in as admin, and hover over the "Taxonomy" title, does it give you a "Configure" button? I've played with Drupal a bit, but am just getting going with OpenPublish...but I'd be happy to dig into this one.
Ernest
Please help an open publish
Please help an open publish enthusiast.
I am creating a news site, and need to rename my front page navigation buttons. I have already created a "news" vocabulary in Taxonomy and added terms . Now how do I link the new categories to my home page navigation bar?
Thanks for any suggestion