OJS 3.1.1.2: Changing home page appearance

Software Support
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Hello,

We offer a hosting service for OJS and recently upgraded from 2.4.8 to 3.1.1.2. Some of our users are struggling with the changes and given that I don’t get much involved in themes or styles I wanted to ask a question of the PKP community to ensure I’m giving the best advice.

One of our journal managers has content in Website>Appearance>Additional Content that appears on the home page underneath the Current issue that he wants to appear at the top of the page like this:

Our Mandate
Open Access
Call for Papers
Current

Is this something that can only be accomplished by customizing templates or am I missing something obvious that would allow him to manipulate how content appears on the home page?

TIA,

Tara

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If you have several journals in one installation of OJS and only one journal wants to change the template, then I suggest you create a child theme.

If you use the default theme, you could use the default child theme here: https://github.com/NateWr/default-child

You just need to install that theme, enable it in the journal you need the custom page for and the add a template directory to that theme. In that directory you place a modified version if this template file: https://github.com/pkp/ojs/blob/master/templates/frontend/pages/indexJournal.tpl
The folder structure need to be the same templates/frontend/pages/. The additional home page content part is here https://github.com/pkp/ojs/blob/master/templates/frontend/pages/indexJournal.tpl#L77-L81 you just move it upwards in the template.

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Thank you so much for your response. Sadly, we don’t offer that level of support but I will keep the solution you presented on file.