OpenPublish

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

My onsite article RSS feeds not parsing

Posted by tapafrica on January 6, 2011 at 12:49am

I have two open publish sites and on both of them the onsite article feeds are parsing correctly? They seem to be picking up all the categories etc and I get an error saying Your feed might be empty or missing publish dates or GUIDs - any one else had this problem?

Comment form missing

Posted by gomeh on January 5, 2011 at 1:20pm

I notice for certain content type (ie Event, feeds), comment form link is missing, although I have enabled it. Does anyone else experiencing this?

Add Content

Posted by KosK on January 5, 2011 at 9:23am

Hi - I'm new to Drupal and OP but have created an evaluation site and it seems to fit our needs. However, I can't seem to publish any content - I just get a white screen if I try to add articles, blogs etc. Everything else seems to have installed OK. Any suggestions gratefully received!

Slideshow Content Type on OP 2.1

Posted by dazzler on January 4, 2011 at 5:34pm

Hi,

I am curious about theming the Slideshow Content Type. There is no node-slideshow.tpl.php that I could see. How is this being generated? I did some cursory searching, but don't have a total grasp on this content type theme. I want to add some fields and change the layout (which I know I can do with my own custom stylesheet via the view).

Thanks.

IRC anyone?

Posted by dazzler on January 4, 2011 at 5:31pm

So, as I receive the group discussion emails, it's made me wonder if there is any interest in, or if there is already, an openpublish irc room? I looked on freenode, but didn't see anything.

If this doesn't exist:
*Are there enough OP advanced users to support this?
*Are there enough general users to support this?

Personally, I think this would be tremendous. But I am also not the maintainer, etc.

Thanks!

Modifying the formats dropdown in CK Editor - OP 2.1

Posted by dazzler on January 4, 2011 at 5:24pm

I would like to modify the CKEditor format dropdown. I know where to locate the library for this (/sites/all/libraries/), but can't figure out how to make it 'take'. Essentially, I would like to duplicate the functionality of the normal(div) item, but give the div a class. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Lost CSS theme format - maintenance page

Posted by tapafrica on January 3, 2011 at 1:28pm

Hello,

For some reason I had to register to join this group but I am same poster as this thread: http://drupal.org/node/1013310

Setting Up LAMP Stack On CentOS and RackSpace Cloud Server

Posted by irakli on December 31, 2010 at 1:20pm

OpenPublish is a complex, large Drupal distribution that (due to its large code-base) has higher minimal hardware requirements than bare-bones Drupal. Because of this OpenPublish is not officially supported on the shared hosting environments (even though some of our crafty users, have still managed to run it on some shared hosts :)).

How to set the Home page to a single coulmn layout with some article content in it?

Posted by rot on December 31, 2010 at 10:43am

Hi all!

I simply don't get why i can't set the HomePage to a LandingPage with a 1 column layout. This seems to get ignored in op.

is there a way to set such a home page without chnaging the home template?

thx
roman

Need help to identify cause of slow response on openpublish

Posted by riverrat on December 30, 2010 at 8:10pm

I am hosted with Lunarpages and have been for many years
Recently I have put up a test site for a site that I am developing and I am experiencing very slow response times. In some cases they are in excess of a minute. The other site, which is a lix of PHP and HTML has a response time of less than seconds. They are both on the same server.

Articles turning into blocks???

Posted by occi64 on December 28, 2010 at 8:49pm

In the past few days I've discovered that articles on my OP site are turning into blocks.
In fact, just to go to blocks causes a memory error.
Anyone know why this happens? Is there a way to delete them from the blocks page?
And, how to stop this from happening?
Any thots would be appreciated.

Bob

front news - views and nodes slideshow - how to

Posted by chrysonline on December 28, 2010 at 9:48am

hi,

i would like to use the "nodes slideshow" in an OP frontpage.

For example, 2 websites use it : http://www.tnr.com/ - http://www.nrn.com/

See my image attached below.

1) is this a single specific module for OP ? in OP ?
2) is this a specific development used with a "views" module ?
3) how to use it in an OP 2.3 ?

Thks ;-)

Customizing the Primary Navigation menu css

Posted by pkcho on December 24, 2010 at 11:22pm

I want to make each menu item in my Primary menu a different color, but I do not see distinguishing css for any of the individual menu items.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?

I'm using the two-tiered menu system supplied in OP 2.3.

Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Joe

Bug: different divs/ids for registered and anonymous users

Posted by gennadiy on December 22, 2010 at 10:48pm

Hi guys,

Divs/ids for registered and anonymous users differ in some places that changes same page look and requires additional time to play with CSS. One of the places I wonder how to fix the right way is blocks on the homepage. There is between blocks space that defined as .context-block { padding-bottom: 10px; }. So there is space in case of registered user and then it dissapeares ones you logged out. Please see fragments of html code below (OP 2.2).

Will appreciate your help,
Thank you,
Gennady

Anonymous:

div id="op-content">

CTools Error

Posted by bigkevracer on December 22, 2010 at 9:24pm

Hi all.

Since I updated my OpenPublish install to Drupal 6.20 and updated a couple of modules on the weekend, I've been getting the following error whenever I try and run cron or access topic hubs:

Fatal error: Class name must be a valid object or a string in /home/socialpu/public_html/sites/all/modules/ctools/includes/export.inc on line 905

Can't get panels to properly replace the homepage

Posted by pkcho on December 22, 2010 at 7:43pm

I'm trying to create a page from panels to replace the homepage of my OP 2.3 site.

I have renamed the page-front.tpl.php in my sub-theme and the original openpublish theme folders and then flushed all my cache theme registry. But, for whatever reason, the 3-column layout of the original frontpage remains (the 2 vertical dividers are present) and the panel page attempts to squeeze its entire page content into the left column.

As a test, I make /node, the frontpage designation, and navigate to /frontpage, the panel page, and /frontpage dispaly as I intended.

Issue with VBO and changing OP workflow states

Posted by pkcho on December 22, 2010 at 6:55am

I have installed Views Bulk Operations so that I can change workflow states in bulk, but when I attempted that it did not properly display any states to change to. Doing some investigation, I found that there are some issues between both VBO and the workflow module that apparently might be fixed in the newer versions. But since OP uses Features to install Workflow, I can't upgrade Workflow, right?

Am I stuck? Do I need to wait until OP Features Workflow is upgraded and in the meantime have to change many of my nodes to the published state manually? Yikes!

Primary Links - Mega Menu Drop-Down - 1. Possible? 2. Tutorial (?)

Posted by shinz83 on December 20, 2010 at 8:57pm

I'm really looking for a good way to make mega menu dropdowns. Is there a good module for this? It would be GREAT if someone could produce a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this within the OpenPublish framework.

I've tried with MiniPanels, but can't figure out where to put the qtip library. Doesn't work for me. Help (?)

Right now I have a mega menu produced "On top of content" but I really want the menu to be in the primary links section.

Could really use some guidance.

Thanks

6.20 Update

Posted by andibonn on December 19, 2010 at 11:32pm

What's about new Drupal core 6.20? Is it a recommended update for OP 2.3?

Best regards
Andreas

How is the Tabbed "most commented"/"most viewed" block created?

Posted by pkcho on December 19, 2010 at 7:58am

Can someone explain how the Tabbed "most commented"/"most viewed" block is created on the Frontpage?

I went to the Frontpage Context and disabled the "most viewed nodes by type", saved, then went to the frontpage and saw that the "most commented" content was by itself. When I re-enable the "most viewed nodes by type" in context, and position it beneath the "most commented" content, the tabbed block reappears.

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