Home Page Customization, Revisted

[mcyzyk]

As far as I can tell, this was never answered:

Home Page Customization

I want to customize my main home page (the main root Omeka S page, not an individual site home page) where it lists the names of the sites and “Go to the Admin dashboard…”. Are there any examples or best practices for doing this? Are any other users doing this? Should I just make my own customizations to application/view/omeka/index/index.phtml and make sure that I don’t write over it the next time that I upgrade? Or is this against the intention of the software? Right now since I don’t know h…

I too am wanting to customize our Omeka-S landing page:

https://exhibits.library.jhu.edu/omeka-s/

Right now, I just want to add a logo and some text to this landing page.

I found at the very bottom of the following documentation a clue:

https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/frontpage/

" You can use the Default Site option in conjunction with the site page block “List of sites” to create a branded site index and to add an about page for the overall installation."

[A Clue, no details though (and the link there is broken)]

How can I add a logo and some text to the default “List of Sites” Omeka-S landing page?

MUCH appreciated!

Mark

[RobinFay]

Thanks for letting us know you found a broken link. I’ll get it updated.

Resources:

• Customizing the Front page
• List of sites block - this is the page referenced in the documentation.

Robin

[mcyzyk]

Thanks!

Based on this, I am starting to think that the baked-in, default landing page of Omeka-S cannot be customized. Rather. one must create a new Site that consists of this List of Sites Block, then promote it to the front, i.e., make it the new Landing Page, replacing what’s there?

Mark

[RobinFay]

That would be the easiest approach.