Community repository

[billakosgr]

Is it possible to add this plugin to my current theme and make a community repository with my users? Or its only repository for admins, one person etc.

[Mateus Machado Luna]

Hi @billakosgr!

I’ll split the answer in two parts:

1. You can use Tainacan with any theme, but the collection and items will have templates which will offer more features and more customization with themes that have compatibility. Currently, we would recommend either using Tainacan Interface or Blocksy with our Integration plugin.
2. The main idea is that the items repository is managed by logged in users, inside the Tainacan Admin panel. This can be defined with different levels of capabilities. So at least some sort of login step would be necessary. But you can also use the Item submission block for creating pages where an external user would send data to the repository. The disadvantage is that it becomes a merely submission step, the user won’t be able to later edit content that he/she sent, for example.

Hope that answers! If you want to have more in-depth discussions, I would recommend reaching us in our community forum: https://tainacan.discourse.group/

[billakosgr]

Thanks for the quick response! I want to make a community repository for logged in users of course so I assume it will work fine. I added your plugin to my site but it doesnt work at all. I mean I click on anything and it doesnt open the things I want. Is it neseccary to add something else for it to work?

I use Anesta theme!

[Mateus Machado Luna]

Uhm… are you receiving 400/404 errors whenever you try do anything in the Tainacan admin panel? If so, you may try going to WordPress Admin -> Settings -> Submenu Permalinks. Select “Post name” or leave it as it is and then hit the “Save” button at the end of the page. Even if you don’t change anything, clicking the button re-creates WordPress permalinks structure which might have not been updated after the plugin was installed and it is something necessary in order to our endpoints to work.

Let me know if this works, ok?

[billakosgr]

I did what you said. I dont get a 404 page but nothing is clickable..

I am here and I cant click on create new collection..

[Mateus Machado Luna]

That is really weird… Can you give more deatils? Does it spits any error on the screen when you click on “New collection”? Or it doesn’t do anything? Can you provide us with your console log errors? Here is an explanation on how to find that:

https://tainacan.github.io/tainacan-wiki/#/faq?id=how-do-i-see-network-or-browser-console-errors