New versions all around

WordPress version 2.1 is almost finished. I’ve been busy revising all my existing themes so they will be ready for the new version of WordPress.

New versions of veryplaintxt and plaintxtBlog are pretty much finished. Next will be Barthelme, Simplr, blog.txt, and then on to the Sandbox. That’s right. An update to the Sandbox is coming in the next couple weeks.

Notable changes to the Sandbox will be the addition of a few new semantic classes for the body and post div elements. Support for the hAtom and hCard microformats will be greatly improved. Expect a number of bug fixes here and there. And the options menu will also be dropped.

Overall, expect great changes to my themes. I’m learning quite a bit as I go along, too. I am especially enthused about improving Microformats support in my themes. The updated versions of my themes will reflect that.

I’m also experimenting with hosting my themes (except the Sandbox—for now) on Google Code. This is good because it provides a full-featured Subversion repository, bug tracking, downloads, documentation, etc. A project hosted on Google Code should stand the test of time.

Enjoy. And be assured there is more to come.

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19 Comments

  1. DavidR
    Posted January 13, 2007 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

    hAtom and hCard links are backwards/switched.

    Btw- am amazing piece of work you’re doing here. As I’m not up on the WordPress theme scene but love your work, are there any other sites/designers/designs that you’d recommend?

  2. Scott
    Posted January 13, 2007 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

    Links have been transposed so they are correct. Thanks, DavidR.

    When I see something I like, I usually post it to my del.icio.us with the tag “minimalism”. Check ‘em out:

    swallick’s bookmarks tagged “minimalism”

  3. edgar
    Posted January 14, 2007 at 10:21 am | Permalink

    Hi Scott,

    I’m glad to see you back with so many ideas.
    A very nice feature would be, to change text and link clours via the admin menu.

    I’ll do the german translation as soon as WP 2.1 is released.

    Greetings from Cologne

    Edgar

  4. Scott
    Posted January 14, 2007 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

    If you try one of the RC versions of the plaintxtBlog or veryplaintxt noted above, plug in your URL to Technorati’s hCard extractor. Very slick.

  5. adam
    Posted January 14, 2007 at 1:47 pm | Permalink

    he’s aliiiiiive! ;)

    very awesome. and inspiring. i’ll have to get on that hatom support.

    i look forward to seeing sandbox on a reliable SVN host.

  6. Nate Olson
    Posted January 15, 2007 at 2:44 am | Permalink

    Yes, looking forward to your newest confections.

  7. Steve Ole Olson
    Posted January 15, 2007 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

    I use your plaintext theme for my soccer website and appreciate your efforts in this area.

    I’ve been very curious about microformats and their implementation. Your integration of the capabilities will lead to a nice new adventure that I look forward to.

    Another technology to take into account? How about Mobile viewing. I can already do a credible job using the Opera browser on my Nokia 6682. Moving at least one sidebar to the right would improve things by taking users to my content more quickly and I’m certain a more knowledgeable person could point out additional steps.

    Thanks again for your fine work.

  8. christoph
    Posted January 16, 2007 at 2:41 am | Permalink

    i’ve made a sandbox skin, check it out at my page.

    cheers,

  9. Michael
    Posted January 16, 2007 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    The ability to add comments on Pages works like a dream, Scott. It’s going to transform my site from a blog with a couple of pages dangling off it, to an interactive CMS.

    Blooming Brilliant!
    Read my comment addressed to you here:
    http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/?page_id=237#comment-486

  10. Sam
    Posted January 28, 2007 at 11:36 am | Permalink

    I’ll be eagerly awaiting the next version of Sandbox! Keep ‘em coming Scott, thanks for all of your hard work.

  11. mysurface
    Posted January 28, 2007 at 8:23 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the theme, I like blog.txt very much. As the days passes by, I added more stuff into my blog and the minimalistic theme is no more the way it looks like from original.

    Blog that uses blog.txt : http://linux.byexamples.com

  12. Ben Whitehouse
    Posted January 31, 2007 at 5:48 pm | Permalink

    Whohoo! Sandbox 2.0! Can’t wait to get my hands on it. I loved the previous incarnations and totally agree, dump the options page. I never understood it. It was like another presentation menu one level deeper.

    I actually just (almost) finished a sandbox website a few days ago. I love sandbox. love, love, love.

    Improvoker.com

  13. Scott
    Posted February 1, 2007 at 7:16 pm | Permalink

    Well, I don’t know if I’ll bump the Sandbox to v2.0. Andy and I will need to look at the revisions. But a possible sneak-up to 1.0 could happen.

    Ben, like your Sandbox skin, by the way. Especially how it handles sidebar matter. Christoph, I couldn’t find your Sandbox skin, but your main page is lovely.

    Stay tuned. I’m hard at work. By the way, the Simplr pre-release is available at Google Code – Simplr. Enjoy.

  14. Dougal Campbell
    Posted February 5, 2007 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

    Is the svn repository for Sandbox not available at the moment? I can’t reach it at ’svn://skeltoac.homelinux.net/sandbox/’. My svn client says “connection refused”.

    I’ve got some requests for additional theme hooks, if you’re considering changes…

  15. Scott
    Posted February 5, 2007 at 7:06 pm | Permalink

    Hi Dougal,

    You’re right: the Sandbox SVN isn’t up right now. We’ll be pushing out an update in the very near future — next week or two. We’ll have a new SVN up and running by then.

  16. KA
    Posted February 9, 2007 at 10:47 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    Your blog.txt theme has been with me since Day1 of the birth of my blog. Wonder if you will be updating it for Wordpress 2.1?

    Thanks and a Happy Chinese New Year to you!!

    KA

  17. Scott
    Posted February 9, 2007 at 10:52 am | Permalink

    Hey KA: Yes, a blog.txt update is/will be available. Just a minute before you left this comment I wrote an answer to your question. Enjoy!

  18. KA
    Posted February 10, 2007 at 4:23 am | Permalink

    Hi Scott,

    Talk about right timing. Thanks a million! Will update and let you know if I find anything wrong.

    KA

  19. eduo
    Posted April 23, 2007 at 5:45 pm | Permalink

    Scott:

    I showed sandbox today to someone and they were very interested (I’ve had it installed for a long time, yes I haven’t actually used it yet).

    They asked if there was any skin (or plain.css file) that contains all the current selectors for Sandbox with or without format. I seemed to remember that one of the skins had this, but I can’t figure out which one it could be.

    Have you considered adding such a plainstyle file with empty selectors? (not for IDs, obviously).

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