https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2011-03-16T19:40:05ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking SystemCUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=24952011-03-16T19:40:05ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul></ul><p>Here's how these "templates" work. (Keep in mind that I have not installed the Site Template plugin from MHC, but instead the Site Creation Wizard plugin <a class="external" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/site-creation-wizard/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/site-creation-wizard/</a>)</p>
<p>Both "Templates" and "Features" are, essentially, blogs whose settings are going to be copied over. In the case of Templates, everything - theme, theme options, settings, content - is copied over to the new blog. That's why you can only select one of them. In the case of Features, the plugin will copy over all non-theme-related settings from the Feature blog(s) in question <strong>that are not already set on the new blog</strong>.</p>
<p>I guess the idea is that you might have a "Research Blog" template (say) and Features like "Rich Media" or "Math and Science features" (LaTeX etc).</p>
<p>I think that this has the potential to be quite confusing. Here's a suggestion: we start off with Templates only. Once we have whittled down our Templates list to something workable, we can think about adding separate feature sets.</p>
<p>As for process: We can't activate the plugin on the production site until there are template blogs in place. So, I suggest creating a number of blogs (they can have the highest privacy level - visible only to admins) and setting them up as templates, <strong>before</strong> this plugin is activated.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=25032011-03-17T22:13:36ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>If we can customize the theme chooser page a bit, I don't think this has to be that confusing. It could be as simple as "Choose one of these pre-fabricated blogs or choose your own theme and customize your own site!" We could set up sample blogs for the following:</p>
<p>-- personal portfolio<br />-- department blog (features: calendar, etc.)<br />-- project blog<br />-- research blog</p>
<p>And we can take a look at existing blogs (refer to the case studies in our recent talk) to give us ideas for what to enable on each.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=28642011-05-02T16:04:14ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Priority name</strong> changed from <i>Normal</i> to <i>High</i></li><li><strong>Target version</strong> changed from <i>1.2</i> to <i>Not tracked</i></li></ul><p>This should happen soon, but it's not necessary for the 1.2 release. I'm taking this out of a milestone but bumping up the priority so that it doesn't get forgotten about.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=178912015-01-06T01:44:59ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Category name</strong> changed from <i>WordPress (misc)</i> to <i>WordPress Themes</i></li></ul> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=225112016-01-26T21:52:01ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul></ul><p>Adding Sam as a watcher. I think this is still a good idea, but needs a good amount of high-level thought about what we're trying to accomplish, and how it fits in with current user flows.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=228322016-02-23T19:52:41ZStephen Realsbrnlb@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>Chris, Sam,<br />Any further thoughts on this issue?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Steve</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=345582017-11-15T22:21:15ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Target version</strong> changed from <i>Not tracked</i> to <i>1.14</i></li></ul><p>Tied to <a class="issue tracker-2 status-2 priority-4 priority-default" title="Feature: Redesign site launch process (Assigned)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/8836">#8836</a>, as well as upcoming work linked to OER collaborations.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=345592017-11-15T22:21:24ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Related to</strong> <i><a class="issue tracker-2 status-2 priority-4 priority-default" href="/issues/8836">Feature #8836</a>: Redesign site launch process</i> added</li></ul> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=400362018-10-24T16:34:59ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Assigned</i> to <i>Duplicate</i></li></ul><p>This ticket has merged with <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Site templates (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/9943">#9943</a>, so let's continue discussion there.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #502: Create Site Templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/502?journal_id=400372018-10-24T16:35:10ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Is duplicate of</strong> <i><a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" href="/issues/9943">Feature #9943</a>: Site templates</i> added</li></ul>