Customizing Your Site Layout

The layout is an area in the OpenScholar interface where you can manage the location of posts and widgets on a page or collection of pages...

Take a short few minutes to watch these videos for the quickest way to become familiar with the layout on OpenScholar. 

For more information, you can read the written documentation below.


 

The Layout portion of the Control Panel (under Appearance) allows you to choose what elements should go where. Each app page can be customized individually via the drop down list. For example, you may want to have a widget of a list of your co-authors appear on your publications page, but not on your blog. The Layout section is where you make these choices.


Layout for Page Sections

To customize the layout for entire sections of your site, go to any page in the section. Then click the gear to on the right and select Layout under "This Section".

Section Layout

Layout for Individual Pages

To customize the layout for individual pages, go to the page. Then click the gear on the right and select Layout under "This Page". You can override layout settings for the section within individual pages layouts.

Page Layout

Using Widgets

Some apps, when enabled, provide "widgets" - small blocks of related content. These widgets can be added to your layout. You can either click the green box "Add new widget" or drag-and-drop a widget from the unused widget gallery.

Drag-and-Drop Widgets

Once in the Layout area, simple choose which page you'd like to lay out (front page, publications page, etc.) and then drag the widgets from the top widget menu onto the layout map. Once saved those widgets will be live on the pages you've edited.

Dragging a widget into place:

Be sure to "Save Configuration" after making changes to the layout.

Updated: 9Aug18