Posted by ithacaindy on March 6, 2010 at 2:57am
Can someone point to themes that work with OP? I want something that is not as hard-coded as the default.
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Any theme should work with
Any theme should work with OP. But a theme with support for contexts is probably what you are looking for. I tried with Acquia Marina 3.x version + Fusion+Skinr. That works.
http://drupal.org/project/acquia_marina
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Does Acquia Marina have a
Does Acquia Marina have a middle region? That is what's missing from the default OP theme, preventing it from being customized fully.
One of the big problems in
One of the big problems in the current openpublish_theme is code logic being embedded into tpl.phps. There's a large ongoing effort to clean this up for the next version.
When the effort is completed, there will be MUCH cleaner base theme (openpublish_theme) that is easier to subtheme and a sample subtheme implementation.
Using base theme is important because OpenPublish exposes many additional variables to certain theme files, making it more powerful and theme more managable than if you went with a generic theme.
Easy and non-developer-friendly theming is and will remain one of the top priorities for OpenPublish as a product. As you know Drupal, in general, has had some challenges attracting designer (non-developer, in general) community and our dream is to be champions in breaking that "spell". So we have big ambitions in this regard. We are also trying to actively engage design partners to create third-party themes. Before we go full force in that effor, howevr, we need to clean-up some obvious flaws, first.
The first big upgrade in this direction will be a version that we will release before DrupalCon San Francisco. The goal is to finish the work by then so we can include new theming in the OP training during the conference:
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/pre-conference-trainings/openpublish...
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Just a note: I did a fresh
Just a note: I did a fresh install of OP 7.1 and tried the two beta themes provided - they both threw up fatal errors surrounding missing components. I switched back to the default theme and everything is fine.
In a similar vein, I think it would vastly improve the customization of the default theme if a middle front page region would be added to the left and right sidebars, along with top/bottom content. I'd like to replace the hard-coded area reserved for blog posts, resources and such with other blocks.
If I understood you
If I understood you correctly, let me clear something:
OP default theme has a middle region. The left sidebar, right sidebar and Top-of-content and Underneath the content. These are the regions WHEN you use context, of course.
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Need a Front Page Content Region
I understand there is a middle region which is useful for displaying items above and below an article. I guess my question centers on customizing the front page. Currently, the default theme has a left sidebar where feature stories and feed items appear. The middle column is devoted to blogs, multimedia and resources, while the right sidebar handles ads and related terms. My goal is to customize the middle column of only the front page, replacing multimedia and resources with other information, such as a weather block and one listing the latest published articles.
I might not fully understand the context paradigm and how it contrasts with the more traditional block method. Is there a way to customize the mid-column front page via context?
(These questions bring up, I think, the need for a documentation effort aimed at answering questions from the growing number of individuals joining the ranks of well-resourced organizations using OP daily.)
I might not fully understand
With my limited knowledge, I think it is customizable in the sense that you cannot expand or shrink the middle area, but you can stack content. But I guess this is not what you are looking for.
I would also like to have some more regions, especially one immediately above the footer region (covering 100% of the page). I understand that OP is not here to customize as per my need, but given irakli's comment, I am really hopeful of getting a really flexible theme for OP in the near future. He said:
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Getting to know OP Context
Here's what I've picked up by poking around in OP.
Learning context:
Go to Administer > Site Building > Context
To avoid messing up the frontpage:
1. Clone the frontpage listing
2. change the value to something like frontpage_testing
3. change the path to something else like fronttest
4. save
Now play around with moving the content into the area you want.
To see your results go to http://www.yoursite.com/fronttest
When you get what you want, rename the original frontpage context to frontpage_old, change its path, rename your test to frontpage, change its path to front.
It took me a long time to wrap my head around Context. I wish I had seen this video earlier.
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode38
Hope this is helpful.
An outstanding primer on
An outstanding primer on modifying the OP frontpage. Much appreciated.
Breaking the 'Spell' Surrounding Drupal's Image
...is one of my goals, also. Drupal, for the non-designer, non-programmer can be tantalizing for its potential, but frustrating for its lack of an interface attractive to the non-technical. I liken Drupal, sometimes to be the emerald city but without many passable roads, save those you build yourself. For publishers, OP is a fantastic back-end, providing all the tools to create content. I am just hoping that great back-end will someday be meshed with an equally useful front-end. There is nothing I would like better than to migrate my publications from Joomla (which has a wonderful front-end designed for humans meshed with a passable back-end that could be much improved) to OP.
Requests for Future OP Article Creation Screen
I'd like to request OP change, or somehow allow editors change the order of how an article is created. The 6.x backend Article creation screen had the order correct: hed, deck, byline, image, teaser, body. The order now, which puts the teaser after the body and puts the image after everything else is not intuitive.
You control the order of your information
You can control the order of the fields.
Go to Admin - Content - Content Types.
Choose a content type (Article for example)
Choose "Manage Fields"
Drag the icon with 4 arrows up or down to rearrange field
Save
Wonderful. If OP can just
Wonderful. If OP can just release more themes, this Drupal profile will be my publishing platform.
Adaptivetheme has built an OpenPublish subtheme
There is an OpenPublish subtheme to the Adaptivetheme (http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme). Here is an example website that they built with it http://www.cleaneconomies.com/. I don't think that they are working on it. It would be great if if AT started to offer commercial AT templates for OpenPublish.
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It's a beautiful site. Jeff
It's a beautiful site. Jeff Burnz of AT emailed me to say they have a couple OP themes, but they've set no time frame when they'll be released.
In the current version a
In the current version a theme must be a sub-theme of openbplish_theme to be fully compatible with OP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/54323#comment-150978
We are certainly interested in engaging great folks at AdaptiveThemes (and any other group who specializes in themes) but it will probably be more productive to do so after theme cleanup, coming in the next version.
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