2008 - in progress

Lorenzo De Tomasi has designed the information architecture and the interface of an online community on collaborative cartography, that permits to young people from all Europe to edit contents and organize them geographically on interactive maps.

The project has been ideated by Lunaria and funded with support from the European Commission (Youth in action program).

The website has been developed by Marco Ridoni and  Lynx and release under a Gnu/Gpl license.

Everyone is invited to contribute new features and knowledge to Oryx. The project is hosted as a Google Code project under MIT license.

1. Open the page-template Page with category and save it from your browser (File > Save page as…).
2. Rename the file wp-page_category.txt in wp-page_category.php.
3. Open the template Navigate posts and save it from your browser (File > Save page as…).
4. Rename the file navigate_posts.txt in navigate_posts.php.
5. Using an free software ftp client (like Filezilla) copy both the files wp-page_category.php and navigate_posts.php into your wp-content/themes/<your theme folder>/.
6. Login at your website and write a new page.
7. Select the Page with category template as page-template.
8. Create a custom field with displayed_categories as Key and the numeric id of the category you want to display as Value.
9. Publish the page.
10. Visit the page you have just published.

License

©2008 by Lorenzo De Tomasi. Copyleft/Some rights reserved. The php code has been released under a Gnu/Gpl 3.0 license.

Future improvements

• Make the <!--more--> work. [Can you help to understand the problem? Thanks]
• Set the number of post listed for each page, using pagination buttons. If no value is set, display the default number of posts.
• Display more than one category at time (for example books and dvds), using comma separated numeric category-ids (131, 12, 36).
• Check if displayed_categories is set.
• Check if categories exist.

• default license selector for the whole site, based on Creative Commons wpLicense;
• event description based on Event Calendar: resolving date and time translations, please help; adding microformats and rdfa support;
• subpages menu for each page with children or siblings, based on Sub Pages widget: adding expand/collapse folders by javascript;
• advanced category management, based on Enhanced Categories;
• multiple languages plugin that affects the whole interface (header, footer, pages, templates, categories, calendar etc.), based on qTranslate: solving last incompatibilities with other plugins;
• integrated geolocation for each post, based on GeoPress;
• xhtml strict + css validated code.

The xhtml strict code

In Wordpress, edit both the files wp-content/themes/[your theme]/searchform.php and /wp-includes/widgets.php, commenting the following code.

__() and _e() are for localization with gettext.

<!--

<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php bloginfo(’home’); ?>”>

<div>

<input type=”text” name=”s” id=”s” size=”15″ /><br />

<input type=”submit” value=”<?php echo attribute_escape(__(’Search’)); ?>” />

</div>

</form>

–>

…and insert the following code:

<?php

function wp_widget_search($args) {

extract($args); echo $before_widget;

?>

<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php bloginfo(’home’); ?>”>

<p>

<label for=”s”><span><?php _e('Search'); ?></span></label>

<input name=”s” id=”s” type=”text” accesskey=”s” />

<input type=”reset” value=”<?php _e(’Reset’); ?>” accesskey=”r” />

<input type=”submit” value=”<?php echo attribute_escape(__(’Search’)); ?>” />

</p>

</form>

<?php

echo $after_widget;

}

?>

The css code