Comments on: Dynamic semantic classes

By: Ron pemberton

Ron pemberton — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:46:30 +0000

Can this be added easy enough to the veryplaintxt theme?

I want to implement the Pure CSS Asides that Andy Skelton started a thread on over at WordPress forums.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:18:47 +0000

Hi Alister: I think the Sandbox body, post, and comment classes work quite well as they are. Tremendously powerful. And quite a number of themes are using the Sandbox dynamic classes (as well as the hAtom microformat) by default, such as K2.

Good idea about the custom field for the post or page. I’ll be interested to see that in action.

By: Alister Cameron

Alister Cameron — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:11:24 +0000

Scott,

Thanks for your comment on my ClassyBody plugin page.

I would seriously suggest you consider using it with Sandbox. I plan to build off Sandbox for a theme I am thinking about for my site, and I definitely will be using ClassyBody.

Note also that I have updated it now to include custom classes via WP Custom Fields (for posts or pages).

All the best
- Alister

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:42:27 +0000

Update: The method described here for adding a dynamic, class-generating function to your WordPress blog is bit crude, really. Look at the functions.php of the Sandbox theme for a much more elegant and thorough method. (All thanks to Andy.)

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:00:41 +0000

The Minimalist Sandbox revision is very, very close to being released. It’s still so simple, and yet very powerful.

And thanks to Andy, it (a) works and (b) is masterfully coded.

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:46:56 +0000

Hi! Ever since I started using WordPress, I’ve been looking for a theme similar to this, and am greatly encouraged by your musings here about semantic styling - looking forward to the update. Thank you!

By: adam

adam — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:27:50 +0000

heh, sorry my post is so awkwardly worded and genererally un-fleshed-out. it’s actually not a complicated process.

it’s surprising that the JS for the tagsearch loads on every page, considering that it’s only useful on the tagsearch page, for which she provides sample code anyway.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:34:03 +0000

I’m just saying the ALA people are far too clever for their own good. Well-written articles, clear presentation, and their damned easy-to-implement suggestions. Curses!

I actually need to mess with scripts on this site. I was inspired by Adam. Now I just need a couple hour to actually do it.

By: Nic

Nic — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:28:26 +0000

Hey Scott!

I suspect the ALA folks are using that to demonstrate and make it easier for Joe Q Public reading the suggested snippets to follow what is going on, rather than expecting to see the actual “left” “right” used in a real life situation.

Yet I can see where that would cause problem as so many people just cut/paste.

BTW, as an aside, this “live preview” of comments is a PITA, it just slooooows things so much.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:35:39 +0000

Thanks, Nic.

Agreed on the semantic names for div’s re: their purpose. Is someone brave enough to tell the ALA folks now?