There have been some changes at ThemeShaper in the past week. I have a new host for all my blogs and projects and the next version of my development theme, Thematic, has been released.
Hosting with Fused Network
I’ve changed hosts and I couldn’t be happier. Fused Network now supports ThemeShaper by hosting it for free. Free. I could cry.
On top of that all my projects, domains, subdomains, databases, settings and assorted whatnots were moved over for free. Again, that’s free. Fused Network has a very impressive reputation online and, frankly, their support is extremely flattering.
Thematic Version 0.2 Has Been Released
I don’t want to make too big of a hullabaloo about it right now—I’m still working on a bookmark-able page for it and a slicker template for it—but I’ve released Thematic 0.2. It’s pretty gross currently but the outer structure of the theme is set in my mind and any updates shouldn’t break stylesheets—too badly.
But let me tell you, I’m totally going to make a hullabaloo.
For version 3 I’m going to take a look at where the post meta should be, add in an option to control the position of the widgetized index insert (a spot to add a widget between posts) and create a 3-column sample structure with two sidebars on the right. I’ve abstracted the structure from the sample style.css and I want to provide bulletproof options for the most popular blog layouts. The 3-column is a must.
Version 2 has built-in support for WP-PageNavi and Subscribe to Comments. Unless someone can convince me otherwise, I’m going to leave the plugin support at just those two for now.
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Awesome to have you on Fused as well!
They’ve been sponsoring / handling my hosting since late last year and I’ve never been happier or felt “safer” online.
Nice, how’d you end up on Fused? They contact you?
I’m looking on moving away from WordPress.com, and I would love a host that didn’t mind my 7000 hits a day.
Thanks, Adii. I’m really liking their re-skinned cpanel too. Very cool.
Engtech: It was like providence. Fused contacted me—days before my hosting ended at the last host. They sponsor Open Source projects and lately they’ve been liking the WordPress.
Also cool: it’s a Canadian company.
… And if you want some help with those 7000 hits a day, I mean, like, you know, you could redirect to my site, right? I’m cool with that. I won’t make any promises about learning Ruby though. :)
Is there a theme preview somewhere? Mostly I’m interested in how clean the markup is.
You can browse the code on the project page (look in trunk). If you see something ugly feel free to leave a comment here or contact me. It’d be appreciated.
As far as a preview: eventually. That’ll come with the hullabaloo. But I’m a little conflicted about how to do it. I’ll probably do screenshots for Thematic and full demos for the templates. Again, eventually, with hullabaloo.
Hi Ian,
I just learned of your thematic project. I’m thrilled! As a WP evangelist and amateur themer, I am looking forward to using thematic as a base. I started with Small Potato’s theme making tutorial, then worked my way toward Sandbox and found it to be more than I needed for my skill level.
I find you, and the group of designers around you ( Adii and Justin), to be taking the direction with WP themes that I aspire to.
Thanks for thematic and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Cool. Thanks, Adam. One small point: Thematic will be both more complicated and less complicated than The Sandbox at the same time. CSS is more my thing than PHP so one of my goals is too at least make that a little easier. Mainly by providing some fixed-width examples and throwing in a sample grid, a CSS reset, and some basic typography and element styling.