Comments on: WP Framework 0.1 is out!

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:24:03 +0000

@SE7EN – that was already planned. it’ll be available once version 0.2 comes out. TBA

@Ryan, thanks for going out of your way to contact dan! @Dan, I sent you an email

By: Dan Schulz

Dan Schulz — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:56:01 +0000

Ryan’s referring to a WordPress Theme Framework I’ve been tinkering with for the past year and a half. Production stopped due to computer problems (as anyone on SitePoint.com would probably be willing to tell you), but is expected to resume shortly (I hope).

As for a link, it’ll be released when it’s ready – not before then (though I am willing to make exceptions in a few cases).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:46:41 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:54:02 +0000

Sorry, I don’t have a link at hand. Dan is an advisor over at SitePoint.com. I’ll PM him a link to this page so he can fill you in on the details himself.

By: SE7EN

SE7EN — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:52:38 +0000

Can you export the content on demo site and release it for downloading too? Thank you

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:09:57 +0000

@Ryan – thanks for the suggestion Ryan. I’m aware of the limited possibilities WP Framework might impose due to its HTML structure, but in future versions, WPF won’t have that kind of limitation. It’ll be HTML agnostic.

And I’ve never heard of Dan Schulz or his Semantic WordPress framework. You have a link for that? And I would love to check out what you’ve got in the making, there’s always room for more of these types of projects.

@Richard Spencer Davies – thanks man, tell me how it works out for you!

@Ozh – Depending on how you look at it, it’s completely different or it’s a continuation from where Sandbox choose to stop. WPF helps theme authors build themes faster and more efficient. If it had served that need, I wouldn’t have started WPF. The difference might not be apparent right now. But as WPF starts to evolve, that differentiation will be clearly visible. Once I get back from Europe, I’m going to be finishing up on version 0.2, which will probably make things more confusion .

By: Ozh

Ozh — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:01:16 +0000

Care to highlight how this is different from Sandbox?

By: Richard Spencer Davies

Richard Spencer Davies — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:13:14 +0000

This looks brilliant, i’ll download tonight and have a good look through. Thanks!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:27:31 +0000

Am I correct that this is a blank theme with no CSS, so that designers can simply create CSS to suit the HTML? If so, you may want to look at putting some more DIV tags in there as it will be a bit too tricky to do the more complicated layouts without them.

Have you seen ‘Semantic WordPress’ by Dan Schulz? He was working on building a solid base theme for developers to work from. Progress stopped on it a while ago and I’m not sure if he’s got back into it again yet.

I’m working on a similar (well, sort of) project at the moment too.

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:25:29 +0000

@justin hehe, I totally left out a lot of details, man I need some sleep! lol