[wp-hackers] Theme structure

[Charles E. Frees-Melvin]

One Standard practice i notice is all code not closed in the head is
closed in the foot.

2008/6/11 Alan Baljeu <alanbaljeu at yahoo.com>:
> Thanks for the links.  Those are interesting themes.
>
> To correct you on a thought though, I'm not a theme designer, I'm a programmer.  I'm tackling this, not because it's going to save me time, but for the challenge of building the tool.
>
> My intention is not to create "a beast of a theme engine", but a replacement or supplement for the WordPress Theme Editor.  That is, I want to edit theme files.  The resulting theme can be very lightweight.
>
> One possible approach to this is to build a database of code snippets and have ways of adding or removing these.  I have much more specific thoughts on this, but I'll save those for another post.  In the meantime, I'll be examining how these themes work.  I really like the Sandbox coding style, and the K2 column editor interface.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Menard <paul at codehooligans.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:28:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Theme structure
>
> I think everyone starts thinking about building a management panel
> after a couple dozen WP themes. The concept is root in our need to
> make things as efficient as possible while providing ease of
> manageability to the user. I myself have been guilty of trying to
> build a generic theme engine based on blueprint where I can control
> the number, position and width of columns, header footer information,
> color, images and all that crap.
>
> The problem you run into is you are needing to tweak your theme for
> each 3rd new client because they want something you didn't include or
> think of in your original theme engine design. Before you know it you
> are spending more hours tweaking your theme engine then it would have
> taken to built the simple theme from scratch in the first place. And
> because you don't want to eat the hours you try and pass these 'extra'
> hours to the clients. Pretty soon your rates are putting you out of
> the competition.
>
> Worse than all this, you have created a beast of a theme engine that
> has to run through more queries then WP on it's best day just so the
> theme can pull together the information it need to dynamically build
> it's layout.  And this causes even more server load.
>
> Katie mentioned some good example of theme with control panels you can
> deconstruct. I've added a few more.
>
> K2 - http://getk2.com/
> Anaconda - http://anaconda.taragana.net/flexible-3-column-anaconda-theme-for-wordpress-released/
>
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Charles E. Frees-Melvin
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