Zikula theme status

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi,

I've spent the past couple of days poking at the Zikula theme, and I'm 
at the point now that I don't think I can progress much further without 
some assistance. I have a bunch of other stuff on my plate too (more 
importantly, the www.fpo redesign work) so I need to move on for now, 
but I hope to get back to Zikula this weekend or sometime next week if I 
could get some help moving forward.

First of all, here's what we have so far:

http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/

Here's some of the issues I've been wrestling with:

• Images - This is my biggest concern right now. If you want to post an 
image in an article, you can't. It won't let you. It just spits out the 
img tag in plain text. :(

• Comments - I don't know how to get comments forms to appear beneath 
articles. From searching the Zikula forums, I found out thatEZcomments 
is a plugin that does it, but we don't seem to have it installed and I'm 
not sure if it's okay to install.

• RSS - I don't know how to do this. We need one feed for all articles 
and ideally at some point in the future a podcast and vodcast feed.

• Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names :( not 
sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is rather hacky.

• Links for sidebar articles - can't get them, variable is a mystery. 
When I use the usual variables all the sidebar article links (e.g., 
individual event details links) come up blank or point to the main 
article being displayed.

* Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full 
blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to do 
this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you assign 
'today's feature' to an article?)

Any help is greatly appreciated! I hope you like the progress so far.

Thanks,
~m

[Darren VanBuren]

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I'll check out the images issue, there's probably some crap preventing  
you from doing so in Zikula itself. Of course I'll go back upstream  
and create a ticket w/ my hack.

Regarding EZcomments, you'll have to package it, and ensure it's GPL.

I have to get going to catch my bus.

Darren VanBuren
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http://theoks.net/

On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Máirí n Duffy wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  I've spent the past couple of days poking at the Zikula theme, and  
>  I'm at the point now that I don't think I can progress much further  
>  without some assistance. I have a bunch of other stuff on my plate  
>  too (more importantly, the www.fpo redesign work) so I need to move  
>  on for now, but I hope to get back to Zikula this weekend or  
>  sometime next week if I could get some help moving forward.
>
>  First of all, here's what we have so far:
>
>  http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/
>
>  Here's some of the issues I've been wrestling with:
>
>  • Images - This is my biggest concern right now. If you want to post  
>  an image in an article, you can't. It won't let you. It just spits  
>  out the img tag in plain text. :(
>
>  • Comments - I don't know how to get comments forms to appear  
>  beneath articles. From searching the Zikula forums, I found out  
>  thatEZcomments is a plugin that does it, but we don't seem to have  
>  it installed and I'm not sure if it's okay to install.
>
>  • RSS - I don't know how to do this. We need one feed for all  
>  articles and ideally at some point in the future a podcast and  
>  vodcast feed.
>
>  • Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names : 
>  ( not sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is  
>  rather hacky.
>
>  • Links for sidebar articles - can't get them, variable is a  
>  mystery. When I use the usual variables all the sidebar article  
>  links (e.g., individual event details links) come up blank or point  
>  to the main article being displayed.
>
>  * Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full  
>  blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to  
>  do this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you  
>  assign 'today's feature' to an article?)
>
>  Any help is greatly appreciated! I hope you like the progress so far.
>
>  Thanks,
>  ~m
>
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[Máirín Duffy]

Here's an update on where we're at now. Thanks to itbegins and affix for 
helping me out today!

Here's the stuff still needing to be resolved:

• Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names :( not 
sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is rather 
hacky.

• Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full 
blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to do 
this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you assign 
'today's feature' to an article?)

• EZComments packaging - we need someone to package this ASAP. Any takers?

Here's the stuff that was resolved:

On 09/10/2009 09:42 AM, Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
>  • Images - This is my biggest concern right now. If you want to post
> an
>  image in an article, you can't. It won't let you. It just spits out the
>  img tag in plain text. :( 
Simon fixed this :) It had been disabled because of security reasons but 
since only admins can edit articles it's probably okay.
>  • Comments - I don't know how to get comments forms to appear beneath
>  articles. From searching the Zikula forums, I found out thatEZcomments
>  is a plugin that does it, but we don't seem to have it installed and I'm
>  not sure if it's okay to install. 
We need to have EZComments packaged - it not being installed is the 
reason the comments tags aren't working for me.

>  • RSS - I don't know how to do this. We need one feed for all
> articles
>  and ideally at some point in the future a podcast and vodcast feed. 
affix wrote a custom RSS feed but Simon pointed out Zikula has this 
pre-built in, it was just broken (bc of a config setting I tweaked, 
sorrys :( ) and it works now.

>  • Links for sidebar articles - can't get them, variable is a
> mystery.
>  When I use the usual variables all the sidebar article links (e.g.,
>  individual event details links) come up blank or point to the main
>  article being displayed. 
Simon figured this one out. :)


~m

[Mel Chua]

>  Here's the stuff still needing to be resolved: 
I put this on https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/66 so people 
can comment on the ticket and such when they're done, too.

>  • Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names
> :( not
>  sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is rather
>  hacky.
>
>  • Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full
>  blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to do
>  this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you assign
>  'today's feature' to an article?)
>
>  • EZComments packaging - we need someone to package this ASAP. Any takers?