How to create a slideshow in OJS 3

[danaah]

Hi everyone, I am operating a multi journal with OJS 3 and I want to know the way to add a slideshow on the main page. Or better still how to add graphics to the main page. Is there a plugin that can do this?

Thanks
Suadik Abu

[israel.cefrin]

Hi @danaah

There isn’t, yet, a plugin to enable inserting easily a carrousel/ slideshow in OJS3. But this version is built upon BootStrap CSS framework. If you know or have someone in your staff who has frontend skills, and already works with BootStrap, it would be possible develop a custom solution or, even better, a plugin that all community could use too.

You can read further about OJS and BootStrap in Github repository maintained by @NateWr who manages frontend development to OJS and PKP.

GitHub - NateWr/bootstrap3: A community-built theme for OJS 3 that implements...

Also theming guide is available:
https://www.gitbook.com/book/pkp/pkp-theming-guide/details

Anyway, in a recent past a user wanted a solution to a similar issue to yours. You can see what was his approach in such case:

Adding slideshow to static pages

Hi, I want to add a slideshow in OJS to display image files. I found some modules which does the job like this one , but they won’t work because of path problem. The module setting file and album folder paths are not found from the static page url (setting file should be in the same folder as the file that is calling the function and scripts). Also, <?php include 'settings.php'?> scripts won’t work in pages created by static pages plugin. Does any one know a simple way to add slideshows to OJS…

I hope it helps

Regards,
Israel Cefrin
Public Knowledge Project Team

[danaah]

Thank you @israel.cefrin am much grateful