Getting front_page to look like demo
Tue, 15/12/2009 - 06:48
Just installed ProsePoint and really like the distro. How can I get my front page to look like the demo, because right now, my stories show up in blog format. I may have screwed something up after the install because I deleted all the taxonomy terms which caused me to have to change my front_page setting from channel/1 to channel/4.
Also, has anyone tried using Panels with this?
Wed, 16/12/2009 - 00:41
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Thanks for the reply. I
Thanks for the reply. I guess my next question would be...what are the advantages of creating a sub-theme of the prose point tma template instead of something like a Zen sub-theme? What is in the prose point modified template that I'm missing in Zen excluding the fact that the PP template already has the look and feel of a magazine/newspaper? I'm looking at Zen and they are already looking ahead at some of the Drupal 7 changes coming and incorporating those things in their theme. It also looks like TMA might already be a sub-theme of Zen. I'm just trying to start out on the right foot here in terms of being in-line with future Prose Point and Drupal upgrades.
Wed, 16/12/2009 - 09:56
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Hi,
Actually, the default theme of ProsePoint is tma2, which is a subtheme of tma which is itself a subtheme of zen. Zen is bundled with ProsePoint, though it is hidden from the admin/build/themes page.
From a maintenance viewpoint, you shouldn't change anything in tma or tma2 because any such changes may be overwritten by future ProsePoint releases. Instead, if you want to change anything in tma2, you should create a subtheme of that and place your changes in there. See:
Making your own customisations to the default theme
This might help too:
Customising the Drupal theme Newswire for ProsePoint
Zen is a generic theme framework/foundation which is not designed to be used as a finished theme. Tma is a port of the Wordpress theme The Morning After and I have tried to keep it as unchanged as possible.
Tma2 (which is not released on drupal.org) has the ProsePoint specific customisations - stuff like modified templates for story nodes, teaser images, some visual editor styles, channel subblocks etc. If you look inside the .../profiles/prosepoint/themes/tma2 directory, you can see all the additions there.
When the time comes to move ProsePoint to Drupal 7, I'll probably have a review of Zen (and everything else) and see how things progress from there.
(Hmmm ... I'm not sure if I've answered your question or whether I've caused even more questions for you :)
Wed, 16/12/2009 - 12:41
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Yeah, thanks for the
Yeah, thanks for the information. The case study was helpful. I did decide to sub-theme tma2 with the downloadable file provided in the documentation and hopefully we can release these theme back for the Prose Point community. I guess, my only real concern going forward is a path back to core Drupal if Prose Point for some reason stops being updated.
Thu, 17/12/2009 - 14:31
#5
If you ever want to go back to Drupal core ...
Well, I have no intention of discontinuing ProsePoint.
But if you'd like a fallback position for peace of mind ...
The ProsePoint changes to Drupal core are purely cosmetic. If you ever want to go back to Drupal core, you can do the following:
1. Move all the modules under .../profiles/prosepoint/modules into a normal Drupal modules location ie. .../sites/default/modules or .../sites/all/modules.
2. Do the same for the themes under .../profiles/prosepoint/themes
3. Replace Drupal core (but remember to preserve your .htaccess file and .../sites directory).
4. Clear your site cache.
and that should be sufficient.
However, if you do this, you lose the ability to easily upgrade to new ProsePoint releases (since the file structure has changed).
Hi,
Thanks.
Multicolumn layouts are enabled via Composite Layout and edition nodes. For this to occur, you have to have a channel operating in scheduled editions mode.
Visit .../admin/content/channels, find a channel of interest (presumably your front page channel), and click on the Edit link. On the resulting page, look for the Channel mode setting.
However, if you switch your channel to scheduled editions mode, it's a bit more work to maintain because you have to fiddle around with edition nodes and layout - it's the price to pay for flexibility.
> Also, has anyone tried using Panels with this?
I'm not aware if anyone has.
Back when I was putting ProsePoint together, Panels was in an alpha state and not really suitable. I still think the Panels interface is a bit too advanced for the casual user. However, people are welcome to try it with ProsePoint if they wish.