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Custom streamers
The "Streamer" is what we call a line of text or an image that's positioned above the article image (bullet point 4 in the interface walkthrough).
Since version 2.7 you can define your own background colors on the settings page (open up wp-admin and navigate to Arlima -> Settings).
By default you get a wide variety of background colors to choose from. You can how ever add your own colors by using the filter "arlima_streamer_colors" in file functions.php located in the theme directory. Your code might look something like:
<?php
function my_streamer_colors($colors) {
$colors[] = '007fc2'; // red
$colors[] = 'b22e2a'; // red
$colors[] = 'E2E2E2'; // gray
$colors[] = '894b94'; // purple
return $colors;
}
add_filter('arlima_streamer_colors', 'my_streamer_colors');
As of version 2.7.21 you can add your own streamer classes that the editor can choose from when creating an article. Let's say that you want a special looking streamer for all your sport related articles. First you add the filter:
<?php
function my_arlima_streamers($classes) {
$classes['sport'] = 'Sport article'; // key being the class name and value being the label in arlima
return $classes;
}
add_filter('arlima_streamer_classes', 'my_arlima_streamers');
The class name will be prefixed with text-
, the CSS for your sport streamers could look something like:
.streamer.text-sport {
background: #cbeaff;
border: #b6d2e1 solid 4px;
color: #4d6983;
padding: 12px;
}
Here you can read more about how to customize the CSS used in Arlima
You can use the filter "arlima_streamer_images" if you want to add your own streamer images. The code might look something like:
<?php
function my_streamer_images($streamers) {
$theme_url = get_stylesheet_directory_uri();
$streamers[] = $theme_url . '/images/my-cool-streamer.png';
$streamers[] = $theme_url . '/images/another-cool-streamer.png';
return $streamers;
}
add_filter('arlima_streamer_images', 'my_streamer_images');
This Wordpress plugin was created by Swedish newspaper Västerbottens-Kuriren to give its editorial staff an easy to use tool for customizing the front pages of their online magazines.
- Download the latest release from github and unzip the folder in your plugin directory.
- Open up wp-admin and activate the plugin.
- Go to "Article lists" -> "Edit lists" in wp-admin and create your first article list.
- Open up a page (or create it) in wp-admin. Down to the right you will see a meta box labeled "Arlima" where you choose the list that you created on step 2.
- Go to "Article lists" -> "Manage lists" and start stuffing your article list with interesting content.