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

500 error on install

Posted by eddowding on January 12, 2010 at 5:49pm

I'm getting an HTTP error 500 when installing OpenPublish.

Configuring OpenPublish

There was an error configuring OpenPublish.
Please continue to the error page
An HTTP error 500 occurred. http://localhost:8888/openpublish/install.php?locale=&profile=openpublis...

Any ideas? I've upped my memory and timeouts in php.ini

OpenPublish Documentation Sources

Posted by irakli on January 11, 2010 at 10:16am

The question about documentation has come up repeatedly. We are continuously working in this regard and there will be increasing number of documentation sources. Meanwhile, following list is the current state of the documentation for OpenPublish:

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There's Installation Guide: http://bit.ly/installop

There's installation and configuration screencast. Installation part of that screencast is outdated (was for 1.5) but some of the configuration information is still quite valuable.

Where can I change text for pager?

Posted by Katrina B on January 11, 2010 at 2:29am

I've added various blocks to the front page of the OP site I'm building. Some of the blocks have the first, previous, next, and last links at the bottom so users can page through the lists (such as "popular content"): http://newspaper.polestarstudios.com

However, because of the widths I've set for the sidebars, the > and >> for the next > and last >> links may (depending on the browser being used) get separated from the words and wrap to the next line.

Articles won't appear on front page?

Posted by Katrina B on January 10, 2010 at 11:15pm

I've spent some time this weekend tweaking the CSS for my test intallation of OpenPublish; I've put up some sample articles to get a sense of how OP works: http://newspaper.polestarstudios.com/

But I've run into a problem: When I promote an article to the front page ... it doesn't appear on the front page. Any thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?

Making progress with OpenPublish but have a few questions

Posted by BlueWolf on January 10, 2010 at 9:22pm

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.

How can I change the menu bar color

Posted by msidibe03 on January 10, 2010 at 5:43pm

Good morning,

Can somebody tell me where I can go to change the Primary Link menu color, is it a image and if yes where to go to replace it.

Thank you in advance.

Open Publish and Shared Hosting

Posted by irakli on January 9, 2010 at 8:41pm

Major headache that people are having with OP is when installing OP on shared hostings. While OP site clearly states that current OP version is not recommended for shared hostings, people still keep trying to install it on shared hosting so we will have to try do more in this regard, in the future.

How to install OpenPublish on a shared server

Posted by Katrina B on January 9, 2010 at 3:51pm

I finally(!!!) got OpenPublish to install correctly on my shared hosting account. I can't guarantee that the steps I used will work for eveyone, but I'd be happy to share what I did, in case it helps out anyone else.

Side note: I'm also testing ProsePoint (since I'm researching CMS options for the newspaper I work for); it installed correctly on the first try!

Photo Archive Browers

Posted by Tran on January 9, 2010 at 3:54am

A key element of our current html site is our photo archive brower.
We put thumbnails of all our photos up for customers to browse through, using a carousel-type script.

How can I accomplish this in Open Publish?
Uploading them one-by-one will not work.
Can I throw them all up using Filezilla? If so, how does the site recognize them?

Advice/ideas would be appreciated.

Does any documentation for OpenPublish exist?? (beyond installation)

Posted by zoon_unit on January 6, 2010 at 5:53pm

I'm really having a tough time working through all the intricacies of OpenPublish, and I've had a total fail on getting questions answered in this group. (still don't know how to edit a topic hub overview) Some good documentation would be EXTREMELY valuable in easing the learning process.

What's the prognosis for documentation???

SWF tools in Open Publish

Posted by Tran on January 6, 2010 at 3:59am

I can't find a way to make these work.
Anyone else having problems?
I've put the files where documentation tells me to put them.
But I still get this:
The shared file for jQuery Flash plugin - JavaScript is missing.

OP drupal comes with two sets of most of the modules.
WHen I have to put the js files in a SWFtools/Shared

do i put that into the MODULES/SWFtools

Or sites/all/modules/swftools?

OpenPublish upgrades vs Drupal upgrades?

Posted by occi64 on January 5, 2010 at 6:23pm

As I understand it OP is going to 2.0 in a relatively short time. This begs a question for me that I haven't seen answered.
There are two forms of upgrade that I potentially see. They are, OP itself, and the Drupal core. So:

When the drupal core changes, do we wait for the next OP update, or do we go ahead and update with the new Drupal core? For example, right now I have a notice in the reports section that the 6.15 version of Drupal is ready and should be used. OP is I believe, version 6.14.

How to get french as default language as first install step?

Posted by pigot on January 4, 2010 at 4:29pm

As I plan to run a information service in french, I would ad the standard Drupal interface translation process as first install step in OP16...

Is there any simple way..?

Regards, Thierry

Front Page tweaking

Posted by andou on January 4, 2010 at 11:41am

Hi folks,

first of all, sorry for my bad english. I'm pretty new to Drupal and to Openpublish, but I think they both are powerful tools.

Well, my problem is that I would like to tweak the front page of my openpublish site to have the "Homepage Featured Article" view to overlap the "Left Sidebar" and "On Top of Content" context regions. By default, in fact this view is in the "Left Sidebar" region. BTW, I attach an image of what I have now and an image of what I'm looking for ( more or less...:P ).

Teaser not shown in main article - OP 1.6

Posted by andibonn on January 2, 2010 at 1:34pm

I would like to know how I can show the teaser in main articles?
The teaser only appears on the front-page or the feed. Is this a bug?

Semi-broken install

Posted by Katrina B on January 2, 2010 at 1:58am

I began playing around with Drupal a month or so ago in an attempt to find a better CMS for the newspaper where I work part-time. Last week, I discovered OpenPublish ... and spent the better part of two days trying to find a way to get it installed on my shared hosting account. But I had the same timeout problems that many others have had. I tried the suggested processes of increasing the max time ... with no luck.

One Last Try at a Godaddy Installation

Posted by Tran on January 2, 2010 at 1:23am

Thanks to all who have tried to assist me in installing OP at Godaddy.

I still have not accomplished it.
I can install a regular drupal installation, manually.
But not OP.

So here's my new idea ...

I have successfully installed OP at Pinchhost. What if i just copy everything from there over to Godaddy by FTP?

Would that work?
Which files should I send over? Which should I not? Which should I change.

Also, I keep hearing about php.ini.
Where exactly do I find such a thing?
If I need to make it, where do I put it?

Lots of questions, I know.
Thanks

If I can't install Open Publish, which OP install files can I install to mimic it

Posted by Tran on January 1, 2010 at 5:39pm

I get all the modules. I see the theme.
But how about the contents?
I love the article content with the built in teaser for the front page.
I also like the relationships between pages.
How can I use all that, but only in drupal.
Is there a place in the file structure where I can find the files that define the contents?

Happy New Year!

Posted by irakli on December 31, 2009 at 9:27pm

Happy new year! We wish you a pleasant break, and look forward to making OpenPublish much smarter/better, in 2010, with the help of the wonderful community that you all keep helping establish.

It's been enormously helpful to listen to your suggestions, encouragements, get your questions and see people help each other. We appreciate your participation a lot.

Thank you and see you in 2010.

OpenPublish Installation Guide

Posted by irakli on December 31, 2009 at 8:01pm

First, draft version: http://bit.ly/installop

Comments/suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Thank you.

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