OES Theme

Welcome to the Open Encyclopedia System (OES) Theme repository on GitHub.
OES is a modular and configurable software platform for creating, publishing, and maintaining online encyclopedias in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed to be accessible worldwide through Open Access.

For more information, please visit the main repository or our website.

A typical OES application consists of:

• the OES Core plugin
• a project-specific OES plugin that implements application-specific features
• optional OES modules,
• optional OES theme, such as this theme.

The OES Theme serves as an exemplary block theme designed for an OES project plugin.

Dependencies

This module depends on:

• OES Core, version 2.3.3
  Repository: https://github.com/open-encyclopedia-system/oes-core

• Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), version 6.3.4
  Website: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com

Support

This repository does not offer public support or issue tracking.
If you need help using the OES plugins, please contact our help desk:
info@open-encyclopedia-system.org

For information about available modules, customization options, or help launching your own encyclopedia, visit:
https://open-encyclopedia-system.org

Documentation

The full user and technical manual is available at:
https://manual.open-encyclopedia-system.org/

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to OES development, please get in touch:
info@open-encyclopedia-system.org

Credits

Developed by Digitale Infrastrukturen, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB IT),
with support from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Licencing

Copyright (C) 2025 Freie Universität Berlin, FUB IT, Digitale Infrastrukturen This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Changelog

2.3.1

• Improved: Sorting search results by post type is now optional
• Remove: Nexus font
• Restructured: global $oes_archive_data and $oes_archive changed

2.3.0

• Removed OES()->main_language, replaced by language0