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

Security Updates on OP alpha3?

Posted by pwarn on February 5, 2012 at 11:41pm

I'm working with the alpha3 version of Open Publish and am wondering about security updates of Core and modules that are included with OP, specifically what is safe to update and what isn't?

I'm assuming that the OP folks love kittens and Core is safe to update, but is there a place I can look to see which modules have been modified and which have not so I can tell which ones can be updated?

Why or why not use OpenPublish for our newspapers

Posted by philipofmuleshoe on February 3, 2012 at 5:01pm

We are looking at new CMS for our Newspapers cnjonline.com . Why would you suggest or not suggest using OP.
Thanks Philip

Fatal Error: apachesolr_get_enabled_facets

Posted by imagenews.com.au on January 31, 2012 at 12:14pm

Just updated apachesolr on OP V23 Build 441, then received this error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function apachesolr_get_enabled_facets() in /home/imagenew/public_html/imagenews/sites/all/modules/apachesolr/contrib/apachesolr_date/apachesolr_date.module on line 48

The site www.imagenews.com.au has been three months in production (non-drupal user before I started so you can imaging my learning curve. That said, I'm planning a wipe-out of the site and rebuilding from scratch on OP 3.

opebpublish deploy fails with mysql error

Posted by ShedPhotons on January 30, 2012 at 6:47pm

After loading a working openpublish instance from my desktop to Acquia devcloud via svn, the deploy failed with the following error:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2013] Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /mnt/www/html/jkrivanedev/docroot/openpublish/includes/lock.inc).

Not sure what to do from here.

Newbie Question - Download/Install

Posted by Tran on January 29, 2012 at 10:55pm

I am able to install OP for D6 with now trouble. But for D7, I upload the files and nothing happens.
Looking at files OP for D6 and D7, it appears that the D7 bundle is tiny. It doesn't appear there is enough there to install a drupal site.

Am I supposed to add the typical Drupal 7 software to the OP software and upload them all at once?

OP, RSS, and Kindle

Posted by Dave R. on January 27, 2012 at 2:05pm

I wonder if anyone using OP has used the Views RSS to provide a feed to Amazon for the Kindle. I am just beginning to look at this, and the RSS feed works quite well until you get to the articles themselves -- then the Kindle is picking up a few of the blocks a Web visitor would see on our Article detail page.

What I wonder is whether the Domain Access module might be one solution to provide detail pages without the footer and some other things we display on the Web pages.

Galleries

Posted by Tran on January 27, 2012 at 2:08am

Hi, I installed alpha three. is there a way to create a gallery based just by uploading all the photos right into the gallery? I think it would be easier than uploading all the pictures independently and then finding them in a gallery node.

Configuration Management initiative and Drupal distributions

Posted by nedjo on January 26, 2012 at 11:27pm
Last updated by nedjo on Tue, 2012-01-31 22:01

What considerations need to be addressed to ensure the Configuration Management Initiative is informed by and reflects the needs of Drupal distributions?

The Configuration Management Initiative tackles problems that are distinct from but overlap with what's done in Drupal 7 with the Features module, the tool of choice for producing distributions. Features allows capturing bundles of configuration and deploying them in a form that can be reproduced on multiple sites.

Installing Openpublish Alpha3 on Acquia

Posted by ShedPhotons on January 24, 2012 at 9:02pm

I would like to create a test instance of OpenPublish Alpha3 on Acquia's hosting service, which is controlled by a dashboard that only offers the Drupal 6 version of OpenPublish. Pretty sure I do not have shell access with this account. It is possible to import an existing site, but that would mean first setting up, then presumably installing-over the vanilla version of Drupal 7. I was able to do this locally, but I'm concerned this might not go well remotely. Has anyone already tried this? I am asking here, because my understanding is that Phase2/OP works very closely with Acquia.

Adding an icon next the premium content title

Posted by scott859 on January 24, 2012 at 3:27am

Greetings,

I'm trying to add an icon, similar to the attached .png file, to the title of all premium content.

If anyone has any insight into how to accomplish this, I would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks in advance.

Menu 'Navigation' not visible when logged in

Posted by Num85 on January 22, 2012 at 7:17pm

I've managed to finally install OP on my site (www.numnews.co.uk) and everything is up and running except the navigation menu.
When I log in I wanted the user to be presented with links to create content etc (the links found in the navigation menu in OP admin section) However I cant see this anywhere.
Can anyone tell me where the navigation menu items as seen in the admin area (for myaccount, create content, blog etc) can be seen or displayed?

I've tried adding 'create content' to the header but this displays a load of text with it, is there a way to just add links to create content etc?

Logging is as admin - page not found

Posted by Num85 on January 21, 2012 at 9:29pm

I recently installed openpublish - because I'm on shared hosting I had to install locally first and then transfer everything over to my hosting area including the database. When I installed locally I installed it to localhost/openpublish/ folder and then transferred to the root of my public_html folder.
Everything seems to be working fine except I cannot log in as admin, when I log in I get the following error message after log in:

Page not found
The requested page could not be found.

I am logged in as a user but the top left admin widget does not show.

How is the node title field configured for the "Profile" content type in OP7?

Posted by AlanO on January 20, 2012 at 5:56am

I'm interesting in how the Title field in the Profile content type of Open Publish 7 can collect information from the Last Name, First Name and/or Organization and input it as the Title. Can I configure this myself? Or do I need to know how to code to implement this myself?

OpenPublish sub projects:Core,Features, OpenPublish Base Theme - are these already part of the OpenPublish installation?

Posted by therobyouknow on January 19, 2012 at 4:26pm

Would the following already be included in a standard OpenPublish drupal installation .zip ?

OpenPublish Core
OpenPublish Features
OpenPublish Base Theme

Does/will OpenPublish on Drupal 7 have (acquia) media module?

Posted by therobyouknow on January 19, 2012 at 4:23pm

Does OpenPublish on Drupal 7 have the acquia media module - this module provides excellent photography gallery handling, including extremely easy to use uploading - multiple photos at a time.

If not, will it include it?

If not including it, then can I add it without incompatibility issues with OpenPublish image handling?

Does OpenPublish image/photo handling have better features than Acquia media module?

I think the acquia media module is excellent and would be inclined to think providing yet another image handling module would reinvent the wheel.

Openpublish Drupal 6 installation error

Posted by motomc on January 19, 2012 at 10:30am

I'd like to install openpublish based on Drupal 6, but after the choosing language I receive the message "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in D:\sites\testsite\www\includes\file.inc on line 937". (I changed the execution time from 120 sec to 300, but it didn't help).
I don't have any problems with installation of the last version based on Drupal 7.
Could anybody help me to solve my problem with Drupal 6?

Does OP includes News Slider?

Posted by didtmaster on January 13, 2012 at 2:25am

Hello everybody again!

Well, I have to confess that yesterday I quit building a News/Magazine portal with OpenPublish. So I started looking for other solutions and I found many interesting themes working with Joomla but unfortunatly paid subscription (near to $100) stopped me in this way. I realise I can try harder with Drupal and OP specially! :P

Ok, I was trying to include a "slider news" frontpage and previously I read many sites talking about many slider solutions. Fortunatly there is one page resuming everything: http://drupal.org/node/418616

Which version of OP is more stable?

Posted by didtmaster on January 10, 2012 at 9:09pm

Hello everybody,

I decided to work with OpenPublish so I started reading and searching the lastest (and more stable) version and I could find thw following profiles:

1) openpublish-2.3-build441.zip (16826032 bytes)
-Based on Drupal 6
-Promoted by ACQUIA (OP v2.3 build 441)
-Downloaded from site1: http://www.acquia.com/downloads
-Downloaded from site2: http://openpublishapp.com/sites/default/files/releases/openpublish-2.3-b...

2) openpublish3-alpha3.zip (12189049 bytes)
-Based on Drupal 7
-Promoted by Phase2 Technology (OP v3 Alfa3)

Using OpenPublish for a newspaper site and finding a UK host

Posted by Num85 on January 10, 2012 at 3:45pm

I'm looking to set up a newspaper site using OpenPublish, the theme of the site is a user generated news site. I'm a bit confused on how to go about it and was looking for some help.
Firstly does anyone know of a good UK based host which supports OpenPublish installations? I'm looking for one with servers in the U.K.
Secondly the site I'm setting up will have a advertising revenue sharing program and was wondering if anyone knew if OpenPublish supports this - do I have to install other modules to get this to work?

Using the default theme can't get content into 2nd column.

Posted by shoconnor on January 6, 2012 at 6:36pm

Can anyone explain better than the docs at Openpublish how to publish content into the 2nd column. I can't seem to wrap my mind around it using the context inspector.
The site is on a test server at http://anthemnews4.ittybittywebco.com

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