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
Things that I would like OpenPublish to do.
I have been posting the the support section of OpenPublish but now that I see people are active here, will join this discussion.
There are some little things that I think that open publish should do.
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Within a taxonomy category, there should be links on the page to the next article or previous article within the taxonomy of the current article.
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The process of implementing H3 tag links on the front page should be clearly explained. It looks like a ton of work finding block ids and views ids and creating view.tpl files.
Image handling in OP
I know this is an issue with Drupal as a whole, but shouldn't a news website solution address the issue of handling multiple photos, captions and photo credits for each article node out of the box?
Anyone have an easy solution?
Thank you.
Read moreCan someone explain how to use some of the features?
I've been playing with the OpenPublish distribution for a while now off and on and really like its potential, but all of the documentation or tutorials I've seen so far barely explain its features. For example, when utilizing Google video or Yahoo Boss with Calais, I know I can raise the relevance setting to filter out unrelated content, but is there a way to manually exclude content from those sources? It's great to have that extra content when it pulls up relevant content, but it looks really bad to have unrelated content (the same name, different person) shows up.
Read moreLicensing Issues
The module page for OpenPublish states: Because of the inclusion of some 3rd party libraries, we need to host this off of drupal.org, you can download it here.
What libraries are causing this licensing issue?
What's REALLY needed in OpenPublish: A final WYSIWYG solution!
Currently, OpenPublish comes with the Apture module, which is a very tantalizing almost solution to a problem that we all have struggled with: a legit wysiwyg solution that allows embedding of images and other content within a wysiwyg editor while allowing uploading of content from a user's computer or linking from remote urls. Apture does this in a clean, almost magical way.
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Screencasts don't render on OpenPublish site
I have tried several time to run the screencasts on the Openpublish site.
The JWplayer is tooo slow. I've given up three times now.
Note * all the time I have been over here writing this the JSPlayer has been running to render the Overview.
It is still running, and I've come back from the site to make these two sentences.
Maybe you should youtube the screencasts and embed them. They would render then.
Also, flowplayer is pretty good for proprietary video playback.
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Designing for OpenPublish
OpenPublish default theme could benefit from better organization and clean-up. Some quick wins that could significantly simplify using it as a starter theme for OP implementations:
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