Change Newscoop template to RTL
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Mazen MagzoubMazen Magzoub
    Posts: 4Member
    Hi guys,
    after successfully installing Newscoop 3.5, and the ZEN template, I would like to have my website to display in Right-To-Left, i.e. to support Arabic language, since this is going tobe the main language of my website.
    I have tried using the Language and Localizer plugins within Newscoop, but could not get the articles and home page to display in RTL, text appears in Arabic, but the template still has English words, and the layout is not for RTL.

    Do I need another template or, can I change the ZEN CSS somehow to make it display the whole website in Arabic?
    Thanks a lot guys,
    Mazen
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Ofir GalOfir Gal
    Posts: 130Member
    Hi Mazen,

    You will have to tweak the ZEN CSS to make the text and layout RTL.

    About the English words, once you've made all the needed translations in the localizer,
    you'll need to go to Content->Publication->Configure and set the Default Language to Arabic.

    For the article content, there's a TinyMCE (the article text editor) plugin to add RTL support.

    Goto Newscoop_folder/admin-files/articles/editor_load_tinymce.php

    in line 45 in the code change it to
    $plugins = array("directionality");

    Then you'll get a button to switch from LTR/RTL in the article text editor.

    Please post any other questions you might have about this issue.


    Ofir
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