[wp-hackers] Sandbox in WP Core?

[Nathan Rice]

I think it's nice that it's not attractive.  At least the fact that it's
ugly means not a lot of people will use it. :-)

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On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:

> It would be nice if the default theme was at least reasonably attractive...
>
> -Mike Schinkel
> http://mikeschinkel.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan Rice" <ncrice at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:17:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Sandbox in WP Core?
>
> I definitely feel like including any theme AT ALL is little more than a
> necessary evil.  It gives users SOMETHING to use to start off, and it give
> us theme developers an example of any new features that have been added for
> themes (like threaded comments, for instance), but that's about all.
> Bloating the download with another theme just seems unnecessary.
>
> And I agree with Eric, there are other theme frameworks out there that are
> arguably better than Sandbox.
>
> Nathan
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Eric Marden <wp at xentek.net> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 1, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Mike Walsh wrote:
> >
> >> I have built a prototype of a theme on Sandbox but am not sure I want
> >> to continue if it is a dead end project.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >
> > There are a number of theme frameworks out there besides Sandbox.
> >
> > I personally use K2 (http://getk2.com) but Thesis ($ ->
> > http://diythemes.com/thesis/), Thematic (
> > http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/), Starkers (
> >
> http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/archive/2008/free-starkers-wordpress-theme/
> ),
> > and Carrington (http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#themes) are also
> > interesting.
> >
> > You might find something to build off of from one of those.
> >
> >
> > -e
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