Comments on: Coming Soon: My Personal WordPress Theme Starting Point

By: Ole Begemann

Ole Begemann — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:21:31 +0000

Thanks for this project, Ian. I’ll try it out.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:20:37 +0000

Yep. Version 0.2 is available on Google Code. Version 0.3 will be released very soon and have a fancy landing page and everything. You can check it out as-is via subversion.

By: michael soriano

michael soriano — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:59:30 +0000

Any update on this promise?

By: Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:44:30 +0000

@ Ian: I’ve already released the Starkers theme, although this is basically just an unstyled version of Kubrick with a lot of the unnecessary markup removed, plus a little bit of browser resetting in the CSS file. I was considering doing a proper development theme, but to be honest, with how great Thematic sounds, I don’t think I’ll need to! :)

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:42:29 +0000

Hey Elliot, it’s in a sorry state right now (with markup sure to change) but you can check it’s beginnings on Google Code.

You’ve got a development theme coming too, right?

By: Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:54:15 +0000

I’d be very interested in seeing (and using) this when it’s released, Ian! Please let me posted! :)

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By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:13:39 +0000

Well, like I said, I can’t improve on Sandbox, just change it. You may like it better though. Any time I think of “improving” Sandbox I imagine Andy Skelton and myself in a rap battle, you know like from Eight Mile? And he’s rattling off PHP functions, defining arrays, etc. Then it comes to my turn and, well, it’s not pretty.

By: Jermayn

Jermayn — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:11:11 +0000

Sounds very good indeed!
I do not like sandbox for a few reasons and hopefully you will improve the good idea!

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:03:22 +0000

Aw, man. Now there’s expectations, Engtech. :)

By: Allan Cole

Allan Cole — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:01:42 +0000

CSS is fun and I don’t care how geeky that sounds…HaHaHa

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:23:43 +0000

I’m excited.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:16:29 +0000

Lagniappe is a great word.

And this theme won’t be too far off from Sandbox’s markup. It shouldn’t be hard to adapt an existing stylesheet.

By: CircleReader

CircleReader — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:34:04 +0000

This is fantastic! It looks like you are including many features from my personal “dream theme” (skinnable / Sandbox, microformats, grids, established best practices…and “free” — that’s definitely a dream feature). I’m not a developer (so far), but I have tweaked my style sheets (they’re nowhere near done), and as you said, Trying things is fun. I can’t wait to start playing with it!

And as for the theme options link — that’s just lagniappe.

Thank you!