1504828 - Use new Theme on https://blog.mozilla.org/mozillareps/

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: Blogs, task)

Description

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

As we're still using the old theme on https://blog.mozilla.org/mozillareps/, we would like to switch to the same theme as blog.mozilla org is using as well. There shouldn't be any major changes needed, I think we can just use the default. I'm not sure though how it will look if a post doesn't have an image, so that's an open question.

Please feel free to get in touch with me for any questions.
Thanks
Michael

Comment 1

[Keegan Ferrando [:fauweh]]

Craig, can you provide some insight on Michael's question?

(In reply to Michael Kohler [:mkohler] from comment #0)

I'm not sure though how it will look if a post doesn't have an image, so that's an open question.

I'm happy to take a stab at updating the theme otherwise.

Comment 2

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

The new theme is called Frontierline and it automatically generates placeholder thumbnails for posts that don't have a featured image attached. You can see what this looks like if you go back to really old posts, e.g. https://blog.mozilla.org/page/30/. There's also a theme setting to disable thumbnails (as seen on https://blog.mozilla.org/press/) which you might prefer. You can still add featured images to posts and they'll show at the top of the single post view, it just won't show thumbnails on the front page.

There should be no problems using the new theme on the reps blog. I'm happy to help set that up if you have any more questions or hit any snags. I confess I've never really documented the theme's features and settings, it mostly resides in my brain and I really must write it down some day...

Comment 3

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

Thanks for the fast answer. We don't seem to be able to find the Frontierline theme in our instance. All themes we see are outdated ones. Could you please install it for us? Once it's installed, we can enable it ourselves and see whether we want images or not.

Thanks!

Comment 4

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

(In reply to Michael Kohler [:mkohler] from comment #3)

Thanks for the fast answer. We don't seem to be able to find the Frontierline theme in our instance. All themes we see are outdated ones. Could you please install it for us? Once it's installed, we can enable it ourselves and see whether we want images or not.

Apologies. I've enabled Frontierline for the reps blog, you should now find it in the available themes. You can use the "live preview" to try out different theme options and see how it'll look before you actually activate it. And you can find me in #wordpress on Slack if you have any questions.

Comment 5

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

Thanks! We've activated it.