The screenshots in these pages show Overprint on Static Hum, a community archive of a small valley's all-ages music scene, with flyers, zines, tapes, photos and the bands that made them, running on Omeka Classic.
Requirements
- Omeka Classic 3.1 or later
- PHP 8.1 or later
Overprint has no other requirements. Its fonts, icons and scripts are included and served from your own site. Exhibit pages need the Exhibit Builder plugin, and Simple Pages the Simple Pages plugin, as with any theme.
Installing
- Unzip the theme and copy the
overprintfolder into thethemes/folder of your Omeka Classic installation. - In the admin, go to Appearance › Themes.
- Click Use this theme under Overprint.
- Click Configure Theme and choose a preset. See First steps.
Overprint is now your site's theme. Its settings are kept with the theme: if you switch to another theme and back, they are still there.
Optional companions
- Design Studio adds a live-preview customizer: change settings beside your site, with a color picker for the inks, and publish when you are ready. Ink and paper settings apply in the preview as you change them. Super Users can use it.
- BlockSuite adds sixteen exhibit layouts (hero, call to action, statistics, timeline, item cards, slider, tabs, accordion…) and shortcodes, all drawn in Overprint's style.
Upgrading
Replace the themes/overprint folder with the new version. Settings are stored in Omeka's database and uploaded images in files/theme_uploads, so both are kept. Read the changelog for anything new to set up.
Switching from another RefBytes theme
The content classes in your Simple Pages and exhibits have the same names in every RefBytes theme, so pages written for Vitrine, Confetti or Plinth keep their look in Overprint, drawn in Overprint's style. Theme settings are stored per theme: after switching, choose Overprint's preset, logo, home page and footer once.