Hi friendly folks,
I created LibraryLearn for the project developed by Jamie Segno and Michelle Keba, and I am just about to get around to a couple of emails sent directly to me but I figured I'd chime in with some important things:
1. LibraryLearn's public repo is not up to date - the next one is a biggie:
2. LibraryLearn is highly dependent on the rest of the Sherman Library's ecosystem. It *is not* packaged for reuse and you probably *shouldn't use it*, especially in the state as it was left on the repo.
On LibraryLearn.com I wrote:
"It's device agnostic, light weight, is smart and dynamic, and future-friendly - and it's totally yours if you're willing to wait!"
While this is true, the waiting part is also true. We have to get permission to explicitly open source it and package it properly for integration in other WordPress themes, but since that permission is probably a long time coming, it is totally spun-up as a highly dependent child theme to the rest of our ecosystem. The video files don't even live on our instance of LibraryLearn but on a separate media server.
What you get from the repo probably will not work for you without intense retrofitting. My apologies. The plans to distribute LibraryLearn are not as a theme but as a plugin, or maybe the important video parts in the plugin and bundled with a theme designed around that plugin, but we haven't yet been given the go-ahead by our copyright person and our parent university.
On a nicer note, I'd be happy to walk you through the code you should use, or show you how to implement XYZ - depending on what you want to get out of an instructional videos theme. Since LibraryLearn was created, WordPress now natively handles HTML5 Video, and developers can now replicate it much more easily.
Feel free to shoot me any questions.
Best,
Michael
www.libux.co
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Riley Childs
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 11:36 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal question
I concur, the theme needs to be placed in a subdirectory like what I described earlier:
<wp-root>/wp-content/themes/librarylearn/<files here>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Pernotto
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 11:29 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal question
At first glance, it looks like you could possibly be missing access to a required file. :)
The dynamic path mentioned: 'library/Detector/lib/ua- parser-php/UAParser.php'
doesn't look WordPress-y to me. I'm wondering:
1) If you have copied the theme in it's entirety
2) If somehow paths got mixed up.
Another thing that looks odd to me is the placement of that functions.php file. The functions.php file, within a WP system, is normally contained in a designated theme name directory - not directly in the 'themes' folder.
I'd expect to see that path look more like this:
/var/www/html/wp-content/themes/YourThemeNameHere/functions.php
....where YourThemeNameHere is the theme you've chosen for your site.
Just a hunch: where did you place that theme? Did you copy it directly in the 'themes' directory, or did you copy the folder it was contained in as well? In other words, when you look inside that 'themes' directory, do you see a bunch of files? There shouldn't be anything in there but folders.
If you had someone you trust to take a look at this setup, or play around with that functions.php file, that's the route I'd go, if you didn't feel comfortable with it yourself.
Is this a 'live' site?
.m
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Sergio Letuche <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
>
> PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required
> 'library/Detector/lib/ua-parser-php/UAParser.php'
> (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in
> /var/www/html/wp-content/themes/functions.php on line 12
>
> this is what i get, any suggestions?
>
>
>
> 2014-11-05 9:58 GMT+02:00 Sergio Letuche <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Login to wordpress...
> > Appearance>Themes>Click on activate to see the theme you want.
> >
> > When i do this, i get the WSOD. I was hoping for an answer from the
> > software authors.
> >
> > It seems that this theme when activated needs also some plugins to
> > be installed along
> >
> >
> >
> http://thomasgriffinmedia.com/blog/2011/09/automatically-install-plugi
> ns-with-themes-for-wordpress/
> >
> > So i was hoping for some answer from the software authors, there may
> > be some prerequisite actions i am missing.
> >
> > Drupal has strong, well-supported and proven media tools.
> >
> > I agree, but looking at the librarylearn demo, made us really want
> > to
> give
> > it a try.
> >
> > Thank you all for your answers
> >
> > 2014-11-04 20:22 GMT+02:00 Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> >> It is amazing to me that a question about media management through
> Drupal
> >> has morphed into a WP WSOD question.
> >>
> >> Once again, Drupal has strong, well-supported and proven media tools.
> >>
> >> Cary
> >>
> >> > On Nov 4, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Mark Pernotto
> >> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Sergio,
> >> >
> >> > If you can't login to WP at all, there's possibly bigger issues
> >> > at
> play
> >> > here. Try this:
> >> >
> >> > put:
> >> >
> >> > define('WP_DEBUG', true);
> >> >
> >> > in your wp-config.php file; you probably already have the
> >> > definition,
> >> just
> >> > change it to *true*. No parentheses.
> >> > I'd normally never suggest that for a 'live' site, but that WSOD
> >> > isn't doing you any favors at the moment, either. What this does,
> >> > is
> >> essentially
> >> > show you on that white screen what/where your error might be.
> >> > Also pay attention to the URL that's displayed in the address bar
> >> > - can you
> still
> >> > navigate about your site? Is every page blank? Is it only admin?
> >> >
> >> > If that isn't working, try removing the theme from the
> wp-content/themes
> >> > directory.
> >> >
> >> > Did you make backups before you did this? Just curious.....
> >> >
> >> > .m
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Sergio Letuche <
> [log in to unmask]
> >> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> well i did exactly this, and then i got a blank screen
> >> >>
> >> >> the zip i downloaded from github, extracted to a working setup
> >> >> of
> >> wordpess,
> >> >> in <web-root>/wp-content/themes/ librarylearn
> >> >>
> >> >> what am i doing wrong?
> >> >>
> >> >> 2014-11-04 14:53 GMT+02:00 Riley Childs <[log in to unmask]>:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Well it is intended for WordPress, but in WordPress you can
> >> >>> drop the
> >> >> files
> >> >>> in <web-root>/wp-content/themes/librarylearn
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Riley Childs
> >> >>> Senior
> >> >>> Charlotte United Christian Academy IT Services Administrator
> >> >>> Library Services Administrator https://rileychilds.net
> >> >>> cell: +1 (704) 497-2086
> >> >>> office: +1 (704) 537-0331x101
> >> >>> twitter: @rowdychildren
> >> >>> Checkout our new Online Library Catalog:
> >> >> https://catalog.cucawarriors.com
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Proudly sent in plain text
> >> >>>
> >> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >> >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf
> >> Of
> >> >>> Sergio Letuche
> >> >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 7:36 AM
> >> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> >>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal question
> >> >>>
> >> >>> does anyone know how could i install this theme from github?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> https://github.com/shermanlibrary/librarylearn
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 2014-11-03 14:14 GMT+02:00 Sergio Letuche
> >> >>> <[log in to unmask]
> >:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> thank you for your quick reply, how one could install it?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I am familiar with drupal distributions only i am afraid. Is
> >> >>>> this something similar?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> 2014-11-03 14:03 GMT+02:00 Riley Childs
> >> >>>> <[log in to unmask]
> >:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> It provides plugins within the theme.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Sent from my Windows Phone
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> --
> >> >>>>> Riley Childs
> >> >>>>> Senior
> >> >>>>> Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services
> >> >>>>> Administrator IT Services Administrator
> >> >>>>> (704) 537-0331x101
> >> >>>>> (704) 497-2086
> >> >>>>> rileychilds.net
> >> >>>>> @rowdychildren
> >> >>>>> I use Lync (select External Contact on any XMPP chat client)
> >> >>>>> ________________________________
> >> >>>>> From: Sergio Letuche<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> >> >>>>> Sent: 11/3/2014 7:03 AM
> >> >>>>> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> >> >>>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal question
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> it seems this is only a theme,
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> am i wrong?
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> https://github.com/shermanlibrary/librarylearn
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> 2014-11-01 16:22 GMT+02:00 Riley Childs
> >> >>>>> <[log in to unmask]
> >:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Here is a WordPress theme/plugin to do this. I haven't used
> >> >>>>>> it
> >> >>>>> personally
> >> >>>>>> but I have heard great things
> >> >>>>>> https://github.com/shermanlibrary/librarylearn
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Riley Childs
> >> >>>>>> Senior
> >> >>>>>> Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services
> >> >>>>>> Administrator IT Services
> >> >>>>>> (704) 497-2086
> >> >>>>>> rileychilds.net
> >> >>>>>> @rowdychildren
> >> >>>>>> ________________________________
> >> >>>>>> From: Sergio Letuche<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> >> >>>>>> Sent: 11/1/2014 6:35 AM
> >> >>>>>> To:
> >> >>>>>> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> >> >>>>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Drupal question
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Could you please provide me with an advice,
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> if there is any drupal distribution that we could use just
> >> >>>>>> to
> host
> >> >>>>> embedded
> >> >>>>>> videos from our youtube channel? The scope for this would be
> >> >>>>>> to have a video gallery, for any lesson, and not to host the
> >> >>>>>> videos
> on
> >> >>>>>> our server, just embed them in our page from youtube.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> If not a distribution, some module?
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Thank you
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
