http://omeka.org/forums/ Forums Tag: theme en Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:12:47 +0000 http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-588 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:27:20 +0000 DaveLester 588@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>The contribution plugin was designed to accept specific item-types, which are hard coded into the plugin itself. The plugin's features reflect uses of the plugin to date, and there's currently no pre-packaged configuration file to customize that, and we have no plan to offer all DC metadata through this public-facing form.</p> <p>Luckily, Omeka is open source software and you can accomplish a lot by hacking some code. To accomplish what you're looking for, you'd have to modify the plugin, including the Contribution Controller and create a new partial for the item type. It's possible to add 'website' to the drop-down menu for the contribution plugin by following the example code from other item-types. And although the contribution plugin was not designed to allow users to enter all the associated metadata for items, it's once again possible to modify the plugin to do so.</p> <p>If you have specific questions about hacking the plugin I can help out -- best of luck. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-586 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:34:54 +0000 jpeg2000 586@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>This might not be the appropriate place for this question/comment, but I'm wondering if it's possible to add "website" to the options that a user can contribute with all the associate metadata that an admin-created item would have. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-560 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:06:35 +0000 kkay 560@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I think for my simple purposes your suggestion would work. I think I was stuck semantically focusing on 'full size' means the biggest version available. Which, as in your suggestion, is not true if you also link to the original. I just need to make sure I batch resize my originals to their max public size. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-557 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:48:46 +0000 KrisKelly 557@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Right now we have 3 different derivative image sizes that are created when you upload images through Omeka. The terminology we use is square thumbnail, thumbnail and fullsize. The thumbnail images seem straightforward, but the fullsize image actually refers to this mid-sized image that you are talking about. </p> <p>I think by default the 'fullsize' images are constrained to 600 pixels on a side, but you can change that when installing Omeka. You could have that sized to 500px instead, and then show it on your theme such that clicking it would display the archived image. </p> <p>Is that what you were thinking of? Or was it that you have the fullsize images already, but you want a smaller size that is in between that and the thumbnails? There is potential for a plugin to take care of that, though we'd probably have to make a few modifications to the way that plugins interact with the file uploads. </p> <p>Let us know if you have any more suggestions for how we can improve Omeka. Thanks! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-544 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:31:26 +0000 JAnderson 544@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>i second the medium image size request! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-529 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:25:52 +0000 SheilaBrennan 529@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>kkay,</p> <p>Yes, we have considered having icons. And you're right, you certainly can upload an image first before the file if you are looking for an image. </p> <p>I'll be sure the development teams hears these suggestions for future releases. </p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-525 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:39:14 +0000 kkay 525@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Here are two suggestions:</p> <p>1. Generic thumbnail icons for other item types (documents, audio, video, etc.) that can be used in browse/gallery view and on exhibit pages. Might the code be something like what is mentioned in the "link_href helper function" forum post?</p> <p>Somewhat tangential to this, we've gotten around this problem for documents by uploading a jpeg of the cover to get a thumbnail and then uploading a pdf.</p> <p>2. Adding a medium size image view with ImageMagick. I'd like to display a medium size image, say 400-500 px wide on the item record and then click for a larger full-size view. Messing with the database and ImageMagick makes me a little nervous.</p> <p>Thanks for your consideration. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/link_href-helper-function#post-475 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:39:40 +0000 KrisKelly 475@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Yes, there is already a link_to() function that does what your function does for most cases. You can't use it for inserting HTML into the tag, so there will probably be a link_to_img() helper that does something similar to what yours does. I would imagine that it would be something like: link_to_img($featuredItem, 'show', 'orange-btn.gif');. By the way, nice job on the that theme, it looks great! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/link_href-helper-function#post-465 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:32:08 +0000 kyleroth 465@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I added a function called <strong>link_href</strong> to ../helpers/Functions.php and it allows me to link image buttons to item pages. Is there a better way to code this with one of the current functions or would this be something beneficial to add to the global Functions page?</p> <p>Code in Functions.php:<br /> <pre><code>function link_href($record, $action=&#39;show&#39;, $text) { $path = $record-&gt;getPluralized() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $action . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $record-&gt;id; return &#39;&lt;a href=&quot;&#39;. uri($path) . &#39;&quot;&gt;&#39; . ($text) . &#39;&lt;/a&gt;&#39;; }</code></pre> <p>Code on frontend:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;?php $orangebot = img(&#39;orange-btn.gif&#39;); ?&gt; &lt;?php echo link_href($featuredItem,show,&quot;&lt;img src=$orangebot border=&#39;0&#39; &gt;&quot;); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>You can see the theme that I am developing here: <a href="http://euclidcorridor.dreamhosters.com/" rel="nofollow">http://euclidcorridor.dreamhosters.com/</a> </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/images-in-theme-layouts#post-464 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:08:51 +0000 kyleroth 464@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Thanks, Kris! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/images-in-theme-layouts#post-463 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:57:12 +0000 KrisKelly 463@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi, you can get the URL to an image by using the img() helper function. Step 1 is to put the image in your images/ directory in your theme, then put an <code>&lt;img src=&quot;&lt;?php echo img(&#39;whatever.gif&#39;); ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;</code> where you want the image to show up in your theme. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/images-in-theme-layouts#post-461 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:20:43 +0000 kyleroth 461@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I am building a theme and I just wondered if there is a way to add images to the page templates with a path to the theme? I know that I can put images into the CSS documents as background images, but some of the images need to be in the layout. I checked the paths.php file and could not find a variable for the path to the current selected theme there. I have also searched through the available themes to see if I could find an example of this, but I could not. </p> <p>Please advise. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-348 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:49:24 +0000 TomScheinfeldt 348@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Bethnicol--</p> <p>Have you thought about adding reCAPTCHA (http://recaptcha.net/) to your contribution form to control spam? I don't think we want to bundle the software with the standard contribution program because not everyone will want to use it, but it should be fairly easy to add it to your site and should eliminate most of the spam.</p> <p>Tom </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-346 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:16:43 +0000 bethnicol 346@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>What worries me about the Contribution plugin (with no sign-in options) is spam. I run several blogs and wikis and the spam is a killer.</p> <p>I really like the Contribute idea (it would be very good for a shared/consortial project that I work with), but open contributions make my knees weak. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-317 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:59:24 +0000 JeremyBoggs 317@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I forgot to mention that we have documentation on how to use the Contribution plugin with your themes here: <a href="http://omeka.org/codex/Contribution_plugin" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/codex/Contribution_plugin</a> </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-316 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:57:49 +0000 JeremyBoggs 316@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi pcoutas,</p> <p>I'll try to answer all of your questions:</p> <blockquote><p>Ok, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that the two available themes don't include a "contribution" page/system for visitors? Even with the plugin installed?</p></blockquote> <p>The Contribution plugin does create a page for the contribution form, located at <a href="http://example.com/contribute/," rel="nofollow">http://example.com/contribute/,</a> where example.com is the path to your Omeka installation. You're right that Omeka currently requires some modifications to have your public theme</p> <p>To make a link to contribution form, I recommend opening up <code>common/header.php</code> in the theme your using, and adding the following inside the <code>nav()</code> function:</p> <p><code>&#39;Contribute&#39; =&gt; uri(&#39;contribute&#39;)</code></p> <p>So, if you're using the default theme, your entire nav() function should look like this:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo nav(array(&#39;About&#39; =&gt; uri(&#39;about&#39;), &#39;Items&#39; =&gt; uri(&#39;items&#39;), &#39;Exhibits&#39; =&gt; uri(&#39;exhibits&#39;), &#39;Collections&#39;=&gt;uri(&#39;collections&#39;), &#39;Contribute&#39; = uri(&#39;contribute&#39;))); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>You can change 'Contribute' to whatever you want the text of the link to be in your main navigation.</p> <blockquote><p>There's also no "login" so people with different access levels have access to different things on the frontend. Is this something I'd have to write myself?</p></blockquote> <p>There is a login for the admin, at <a href="http://example.com/admin/users/login/," rel="nofollow">http://example.com/admin/users/login/,</a> where example.com is the path to your Omeka installation. Its currently not possible to have the login form on the public theme, or to have the public sign up for user accounts, so you or an administrator would need to create user accounts for other people. But we're in the process of making a plugin that I think will solve your problem.</p> <p>I hope this helps! Let us know if we can provide more assistance. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-314 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:53:01 +0000 pcoutas 314@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Ok, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that the two available themes don't include a "contribution" page/system for visitors? Even with the plugin installed? There's also no "login" so people with different access levels have access to different things on the frontend. Is this something I'd have to write myself?</p> <p>The exemplar sites seem to have a way of doing this...</p> <p>I'd love to use Omeka for my research project - it seems to be exactly what I'm after in terms of simplicity of use. The backend is great... but the frontend seems like it would need a lot of website design work, for which I have very limited skills, and no funding to get someone to do it for me!</p> <p>Is there another template/theme "in the works" that we, as website-design-and-coding-limited-users could adapt to suit our needs, but which include the basic functionality for creating online, collaborative archives? </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/theme-development-documentation#post-54 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:28:06 +0000 DaveLester 54@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>In addition to the beginnings of documentation that Sheila pointed to, we've packaged the current release client with 3 different themes (in the /themes/ folder) that display content in a variety of ways. The helper functions most theme developers will use are included in these choices. The "Thanks, Roy" default theme is by far the simplest, and can changed significantly by just changing the CSS included within that theme.</p> <p>Best of luck. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/theme-development-documentation#post-53 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:05:50 +0000 SheilaBrennan 53@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>There is some basic information in our Codex that lists the functions and files required for all themes, but, as with much of our documentation, it is still in early stages. </p> <p><a href="http://omeka.org/codex/Main_Page#Design_.26_Templating" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/codex/Main_Page#Design_.26_Templating</a> </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/theme-development-documentation#post-52 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:35:15 +0000 kyleroth 52@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Is there anywhere to view any documentation on how to develop a theme for for Omeka? </p>