About in admin options page

[Rich Bowen]

I appear to have just stepped into the middle of an at-least two-year-
old commit/revert exchange, by adding the "About" text back to the
Options admin page. r3944

The K2 theme, which we ship with the base product, includes a
reference to this option, but there was no way to edit this field
anywhere in the UI. And those of us who have been running K2-derived
themes for several years had no way to modify our existing value in
the __options table. So I added it to the admin page.

I then discovered that this was intentionally removed almost 2 years
ago. I read the rationale for removing it - https://trac.habariproject.org/habari/ticket/344
- but I can't say I understand why that's a reason for removing a
feature. Quite possibly, the name 'about' is not the right one, since
this is a block of text - a paragraph at most - that K2 puts in the
sidebar. It wouldn't be a whole page, so creating an About page
doesn't fill the same role at all. And it's more than a tagline. I use
mine for a relevant quote.

Anyways, while I have no desire to re-open a fight that's already been
fought and lost, I would like to have one of two things happen:

1) There's an "About" option on the Options page, and some kind person
tells me how to change that to a textarea instead of a text input.
2) The 'about' option is no longer called from any theme, since
there's no way to edit it and that's frustrating. And I'll just add
that text directly to the sidebar file. Which seems a little stupid,
and I expect that there's Yet Another Plugin for this.

Discuss.

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[Owen Winkler]

On 1/4/2010 9:53 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
> Discuss.

Not all themes support this option. Themes may support additional
options besides this one. This feature is within the context of a
theme, and should be configured via the theme settings, not the core
settings.

A better way to accomplish this would be to have the theme add fields to
the theme settings page. This would not be on the core options page,
because then it would be difficult to differentiate what you're
potentially going to lose when when you switch themes. (If you see the
option on the core options page page, then change the theme, you may
become confused as to where that core option went.)

I believe that is a better rationale for removing the "about" interface
elements.

Owen

[Rich Bowen]

Thank you. That made more sense.

I'll investigate what's involved in a theme adding options to the
config page. At the moment, the theme I'm using has a "General" and
"Scopes" button on its config page, neither of which do anything at all.

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[Randy Walker]

My Simpler theme has a customizable footer, thanks to Chris Meller. Take a look at it for an idea.

http://randywalker.net/theme

~Randy

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[mikelietz]

This may have been discussed before, but what's wrong with it being a
site option, rather than a theme one?

If somebody does use it for one theme, wouldn't they want to use it
for another? If it is a theme option, wouldn't they need to manually
set it each time the theme is changed also?

Having asked that, I do realize many people wouldn't be using it
anyway, much like site tagline is also not always used.
mikelietz

On Jan 4, 9:53 am, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
> I appear to have just stepped into the middle of an at-least two-year-
> old commit/revert exchange, by adding the "About" text back to the  
> Options admin page. r3944
>
> The K2 theme, which we ship with the base product, includes a  
> reference to this option, but there was no way to edit this field  
> anywhere in the UI. And those of us who have been running K2-derived  
> themes for several years had no way to modify our existing value in  
> the __options table. So I added it to the admin page.
>
> I then discovered that this was intentionally removed almost 2 years  

> ago. I read the rationale for removing it -https://trac.habariproject.org/habari/ticket/344

[Javier Di Mauro]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, mikelietz <cod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may have been discussed before, but what's wrong with it being a
> site option, rather than a theme one?

I wonder if this could be a widget instead, and be placed into a
footer block, or any other block.