Comments on: Brainstorming the Ultimate WordPress Theming Framework

By: Kredit

Kredit — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:49:37 +0000

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By: Pradeep Mamgain

Pradeep Mamgain — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:00:33 +0000

I am waiting for it eagerly.

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:13:52 +0000

@Jacop, that sounds hot! Can’t turn down that offer, let’s chat.

By: Jacob Santos

Jacob Santos — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:03:41 +0000

I’ll be willing to help on the PHP development side, in that case. Something like that idea will have to be implemented as soon as possible and I’ll have some motivation to help as I need something that implements that in a clean and organized matter.

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:46:32 +0000

@Hafiz – yeah pretty much but itll be different from sandbox, you’ll see.

@Jacop Santos – you hit the spot! I think were both on the same page as far as what I want to achieve with widgets. That reminds me of that WordPress holy grail idea we (or was it someone else? Lorelle probably, idunno) talked about at WordCamp Frisco.

@Justin Tadlock, I plan on doing something along the lines of what Jacop Santos was saying. It’s probably not going to happen in the first release nor second, but ultimately I’m going to make widgets drag and drop style, something I thought *ahem*Shifter*ahem* marketed it as the killer theme….pst!

P.S. Any plans on releasing your framework that you built for your themes? That would be awesome! Plus, all the more the better!

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:14:48 +0000

I like the idea. I built my new site entirely upon a framework I’ve been working on. The next goal with it is to take it and see if I can port my blog design over to it.

Mostly, I’m interested in seeing how you use widgets.

By: Jacob Santos

Jacob Santos — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:01:35 +0000

You could build it as Widget areas and then build custom widgets that duplicate the WordPress areas. Like for instance, if you have a top nav, you can put the top nav at the top above the banner or below it.

If you build the concept around widget areas and then provide several common widgets for each area. It will provide a means for others to come along and add more widgets for those areas.

By: Hafiz Rahman

Hafiz Rahman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:50:51 +0000

About styling, I like the way it is in Sandbox. Very little stylings coupled with some layout-specific CSS. The layout CSS especially is a great help for those still learning doing all this stuff.

Also, I like the name, I think it’s a good choice considering its target audience. Can’t wait to see it

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:01:42 +0000

@Ian – of course. GPL2. Glad your interested, i’ll be sure to bring something new to the table.

Also, regarding it not being styled, I did consider that, and it’s very tempting not to, but I’d like to see how it plays out. My main target audience are those who are already familiar with this kind of authoring so hopefully it’ll work out. thanks!

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:40:54 +0000

Hey, Ptah. This sounds really cool! I’m really looking forward to what comes out of this.

Re. Styling: I’d initially decided on giving Thematic no styling (except the reset) but found 1. that no one wanted to look twice at it and 2. it didn’t really matter. That’s one of the cool things about using Parent-Child themes: the Parent CSS can be ignored completely.

Anyway, like I said, really looking forward to what you’re going to come up with. GPL, I presume?