Community discussions around Open Publish distribution.
OpenPublish is a packaged distribution of Drupal, that has been tailored to the needs of today's online publishers. OpenPublish is ideal for the implementation of a variety of media outlet's sites including: online magazines, newspapers, journals, trade publications, broadcast, wire service and membership publications. Built and supported on standard Drupal core (currently Drupal 6x), OpenPublish features support everything from basic news coverage needs to Web 2.0 trends, social publishing, semantic tagging and topic hubs. Each component bundled in the distribution is well supported, documented and modularly designed according to Drupal's architecture.
Some useful links:
- System Requirements: http://openpublishapp.com/requirements
- Download URL: http://openpublishapp.com/download
- Installation Guide: http://openpublishapp.com/doc/installing-openpublish
- Running an OP-based site? Please let us know: submit your URL to OP Sites Gallery
Important note: in order to fix consistency issues and critical bugs, in a timely manner, OpenPublish had to patch some third-party modules included in it. It's not recommended to independently update those. More information at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/60313
Default Theme Ads
Hello,
I am new to OpenPublish and have been playing around with it trying to understand it so I can later customize it for my website idea. I tried removing the advertisements in the default theme but it was strange that the blocks for those ads were actually disabled and they still showed. When I removed the blocks to get rid of them, the areas were replaced with "n/a". How can I get rid of this?
Read moreRegarding the Arabic language
Hi All,
after I installed the openpublish in the local server .. I took fast toured .. it seems to me at first sight as a perfect system and can be relied upon in a newspaper website...
Let me enter you in the subject ... Is there any support for the Arabic language ... Are there designs expressing
The direction of the Arabic language RTL(Right To Left) Direction.
Regards,
Read moreOur Tweets in 2.3?
I've just started building an Openpublish site, and one thing currently has me bewildered. How do you configure the arguments for twitter pull so that the our tweets block shows the tweets you want to use? All I see is a mention that the documentation is old, and I've found some things on older 2.x versions of openpublish - but I've looked all over and I cannot seem to find this documented
Read moreOpenpublish stopped working
Hello
Everything was working and has been for some time then wham major problem.
The site welcome page calijournal.info looks the same but clicking on any menu item ends up with the same display which is a list of the articles off the front page.
Malfunctions
I have at least two problems with my installation of Openpublish.
1) headings in articles are converted to paragrafs, p, in the page displayed, even though it shows up with h2, h3 and so on in the edit page.
2) Asigning child pages to parent menu item/category is not being saved so I cannot assign content to it's rightful place.
Read moreGet event data from Event DB in openpublish
Hi,
I have not much experience in drupal and also openpublish but much familiar with PHP/CakePHP.
However I can play with basic functionality of drupal like Blog, Articles, Events, View, Customize modules etc. But now I Got stuck in a functionality where I need to get data of events from an Event DB.
INNODB: will it help with a better OP production site
I've got several advocacy type sites waiting to be built using CIVICRM. The CIVICRM application requires INNODB, which I will setup as soon as my webhost completes move to new servers.
Currently, I have no INNODB sites.
I was thinking INNODB might be a better data solution for OP on shared servers.
I'd appreciate reading any comments on this.
Read moreProblem when creating new block region on front page, sidebar won't align. Please help!
Hi,
We're currently designing our first OP (sub)theme and are having a problem when creating a new block on the homepage.
We've created the block with the following code;
Added;
regions[featured] = Featured
to the .INFO file.
Added;
<
div id="featured"
<?php
print $featured
?>Above '
<
div id="sidebar-right" class="sidebar">' in page-front.tpl
Added;
featured {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px
float: right;
width: 580px
}
to our theme's CSS file.
Read moreCreated a new content type based on the Article type, but the image is not displaying
I was hoping that someone might catch something that I missed.
I created a new content type for OP called people_places based off of the article content type. I basically employed some of the same cck fields used the article type (author, main image, thumbnail, etc...), using the "existing" cck fields.
I then duplicated the node-article.tpl.php template file and renamed it, node-people_places.tpl.php. I flushed my cache. I even attempted to clear the theme registry (by going to the themes page and saving).
Read moreUnderstanding OpenPublish
Hi all,
I need a few clarifications to fully understand OpenPublish:
- Why is contexts used in displaying the full articles? It appears to be used to hook blocks to it, just wondering why Views is not used here. Asking for I might be overlooking something.
- Why are only a few fields used from 'Profiles' and all the rest added to the 'Author' content type? Why not group it all in 'Author' content type? Are there any advantages doing it the current way?
A few questions; Logged out blocks, premium content & 'show author'
Hi,
We've got a couple of issues which we're trying to figure out;
- We placed the user login block sitewide when logged in (obviously!) and it said the standard 'the block doesn't display when on this page'. When we log out we can then see the block ok. The problem is that we don't want it there anymore and we can't remove it. Obviously we can't remove it with 'context editor' as it doesn't display when logged in. We've also tried configuring the block so it doesn't display on any page/user can't see it and it hasn't worked... Any ideas asides from deleting it?
Installing OpenPublish on 1&1 Shared Linux Hosting
Hello,
I am having troubles installing OpenPublish on my shared hosting account with 1and1. Has anyone had experience with that? After I select the language, it waits for a while and then gives me a 500 error.
Read morehome page of openpublish
Hi i am new on forum and new on openpublish... it's a beautiful platform but i don't understand a thing... when i create a particular content (ex. an article) and i publish it on my home page, this goes on the left side and when i create an another type of content (ex. multimedia), this goes on the middle side... how can i admin my home page?
thanks
Compare date/time with current time in customized view template in drupal
Hi,
I have a field called field_streaming_date (datetime) under blog content type. I created a blog listing view and selected title,body and streaming date under view fields and override it with views-view-fields--blog.tpl.php. Now I have to display some text according to streaming_date field:
If streaming date < current date/time : print "streamed";
If streaming date == current date/time : print "streaming";
If streaming date > current date/time : print "not streamed";
I converted current time in timestamp using : <?= strtotime(date('y-m-d H:i:s'))?>
Read moreMore link?
I'm having a pretty tough time getting a more link to show up on my author page. I've found the template that controls the view for that page, and added a Node:Link field in the view. Nothing I've tried gets it to show up including:
<div class="links"><a href="<?php print $node_url ?>" title="Read More">Read More</a></div> <?php print $node->links[0]; ?><?php print $fields['link']->content; ?> <?php if ($more): ?>
<?php print $more; ?>
<?php endif; ?>Deleted Credits Block by Mistake
Hi
On a recent'ish install, in admin/build/block - I deleted the Credits Block and now I see a "N\A" in the footer. I can get around this by removing,
<?php
print $footer_message . $footer
?>at the bottom of my sub-theme's copy of page-footer.tpl.php, but would like to know why this is occurring. I did add the Block back in and assign it to the footer region. The newly added block does show up but so does the N\A. Any thoughts?
Many Thanks.
Dibs
Read moreHow to remove the "Most Used Terms" block
I would like to remove the "Most Used Terms" block in the right side column on the front page. I went to Context and disabled the Most used term block in the section "openpublish-listing_pages-frontpage". But when I went back to the front page of my site the left column was gone (list of articles) in addition to the terms block on the right side. When I reverted it back to default everything returned to normal.
Any thoughts? Thank you for your help.
Read moreOP for Nonprofit Site?
I'm looking to use OpenPublish for a nonprofit news site. Currently, it is based on another platform, but I've always liked the OP features. I'm wondering if there has been any progress toward user-generated documentation?
The requirements for the nonprofit site are little hands-on maintenance (ie, no delving into css for the editors/writers), a solid donations module, as well as initial support for Google AdManager.
Read moreSeeking OpenPublish themes or re-sizing advice. Default theme is too big.
Anyone else have this problem? The default OpenPublish theme is too big. Very little content is visible above the fold.
Only 1 headline and 1 blog entry are visible when the page loads. My audience needs to see the latest news immediately rather than having to scroll as soon as they land on the page. And I need more than just the header ad zone visible.
So I want to ask:
- Does anyone have other themes for OpenPublish, or any Drupal themes for news sites? Do you know where I might find one?
Alternatively:
- Is there a way to reduce the height of the elements in the top part of default theme display without having to develop a whole new theme?
Thanks.
Read moreTeaser shows up twice in teaser view
I created a new view by cloning the article view. But when I add content into my new content type for that view, the teaser shows up twice in the teaser list of my new content type. The settings all seem to be the same in the cloned view and the article view.
My question is how do I get the view to show the teaser only once.
I know I must have missed a setting step somewhere but I can't figure it out.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
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