[ckan-discuss] Customizing ckan - featured section

Wed Sep 18 22:32:59 BST 2013

Thanks Sean

Here's my plug for a simple way (e.g. via sysadmin config, or config file - specify an image and a link) to alter this to be incorporated into the base CKAN.  Seems a no brainer that if out of the box CKAN displays a featured section there should be an out of the box way to supply a basic setting for said feature.

Cheers
Aaron

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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:24:21 +0200
From: Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [ckan-discuss] Customizing ckan - featured section
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> Related question, how do you specify the section to be featured on the
> home page. I've searched the documentation for featured section and it
> doesn't bring up anything relevant.

I think you have to write your own CKAN theme and override the relevant template block, there's no quicker way (e.g. config file option) as far as I know. You might find the new theming docs (in progress) useful:

http://docs.ckan.org/en/847-new-theming-docs/theming.html

> Hi! I am customizing my ckan. Where it appears "This is a featured
> section", I would like to show a image. I wrote in the
> development.ini:
>
> ckan.template_footer_end = <style type="text/css">
>
>     .media-image a { background-image : url("base/images/photo.jpg");}
>
>   </style>
>
> but it doesn't appear any image. How can I fix it?

This won't work, the featured image is not a CSS background-image (at least not on the master version of CKAN I'm running), it's an actual HTML <img> tag, so you'll have to follow the template overriding approach I described above.

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