are there any plans to allow customization of the journal page in OJS 3?
I already searched the forum but only found hints how to change the template or develop a child theme.
We would (at least) like to be able to place content at the top (below the announcements) and to choose if the current issue will be displayed or not. The way it is, the journal page does not differ too much from “Current” (if you don’t have announcements).
Developing a child theme is a solution but that way you cannot use other themes anymore.
Hi @carola,
it is really easy to modify templates/frontend/pages/indexJournal.tpl - especially if you would like to move certain content to the top, or uncomment other parts (such as the latest issue part).
Best,
Márton
We don’t have any plans at the moment. Most of our theme work is going into new themes, which may have different homepage layouts but generally feature the same information.
In the long term I think we’ll explore using the Theme Options system to put more layout options into a single theme. But I don’t know if that’s on the radar yet. @Vitaliy might have a better idea.
@carola, at the University of Kansas Libraries, our tech staff created a child theme of the Bootstrap themes that moves the text describing the journal so that it is located just under the masthead of the Home page instead of at the bottom of the page. The Announcements and the latest issue contents are below this description.
You will be able to see what this looks like after we complete our upgrade to v.3 in September. Please let me know if you would like to try it.
If you have questions, feel free to ask them. I’ve also made a small presentation (in German) a few weeks ago. I could give you the Powerpoint file, if you’re interested.