[Solved] Possible to have different themes for multiple hosted journals in a single OJS instance?

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Hi,

I’ve search the forums and can’t find a similar topic.

I have a new empty OJS 3.1.2-1 test site with multiple hosted journals. I would like to try out different themes for each journal.

I’m just looking at the official themes like healthSciences, classic and immersion first.

But so far, I am only able to change the theme for the main site, not for any of the hosted journals.

I can do the following:

Go to Administration > Site Settings > Site Setup tab > Theme drop-down; then select the installed theme that I want and click Save. That changes the theme for me on the main OJS site install.

However, when I try to do the same for an individual journal:

Go to Administration > Hosted Journals > Expand the journal I want > click Settings wizard > Appearance tab > the Theme drop-down only shows the ‘Default Theme’ and none of the additional ones.

Am not sure if it’s relevant but there are multiple PHP warnings in the server logs:

PHP Warning:  Parameter 1 to GridHandler::fetchRow() expected to be a reference, value given in ojs-3.1.2-1/lib/pkp/classes/core/PKPRouter.inc.php on line 390, referer: https://server.name/index.php/index/admin/settings
PHP Warning:  count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in ojs-3.1.2-1/cache/t_compile/65bfc3e024c2e9104f46e23b73376a9455e3df0e^51cfb9321c891ada9323e7942962579e7e4324d1_0.app.frontendpagesindexSite.tp.php on line 46, referer: https://server.name/index.php/index/admin/settings
PHP Warning:  Declaration of MastheadForm::fetch($request, $params = NULL) should be compatible with ContextSettingsForm::fetch($request, $template = NULL, $display = false, $params = NULL) in ojs-3.1.2-1/controllers/tab/settings/masthead/form/MastheadForm.inc.php on line 18, referer: https://server.name/index.php/journal2/admin/contexts?openWizard=1

Relevant versions:

Version: OJS 3.1.2-1
PHP: 7.2.19
Host: Ubuntu 18.04 with Apache 2.4.29

Any help would be appreciated. Hopefully I’ve just missed something simple.

Thanks,
Paddy

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You’ll want to enable the theme plugins for each journal, as well as at the site level.

Settings → Website → Plugins

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Hi,

Thanks for the speedy reply!

Ahh I see, I didn’t even realise there was a side menu with ‘Settings’. I was only looking at the ‘Settings wizard’ link under the journal name. I wasn’t using the top-left drop-down of journals to go into each journal.

Ok that’s great, thanks for the help. I can see how to enable them now via the Settings > Website > Plugins link.

Thanks,
Paddy