I’m pleased to announce that a release candidate of Sandbox version 1.0 is now available. It’s been a long time coming, and I believe it’s become (and still is) a sound, useful tool. Hope you enjoy it.
Please report any issues, bugs, or enhancement requests over at the Sandbox bug tracker.
If you’ve been watching the repository, you’ll also have noticed that in the 1.0 version, the previously packaged ’skins’ have been changed. Instead they are separate downloads and are their own ‘theme templates.’
Additionally, you may have noticed that the packaging of Sandbox with WordPress has been slated for the 2.4 release and will be sadly missing from 2.3. Sigh. Yet if WordPress development continues at its break-neck rate that only means a delay of three months.
And we’re all quite aware of the pace I manage to work at.
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Congratulations.
May I just point out that it’s a release candidate, not a release client?
cool time to get my hands dirty. I will try updating SandPress. By the way a link to the changelog would be helpful.
@Jeremy: Indeed. I suppose a release client is a slightly different beast.
@Arpit: The SVN is the changelog. It’s at Sandbox @ Google Code.
mad props for releasing the sndbx.org design. it’s great branding for the invisible brilliance of the theme.
Yay! Congratulations on getting the release candidate out there, Scott.
Thanks, guys. Let me know how it works for you with 2.3. Suggestions, ideas, criticisms, etc., are welcomed.
i need a perfect editor for css files
i cant imaging how it works to create a sandbox theme :/
with the width / margins and so on. :/
dreamweaver sucks actually
Sandbox is brilliant.
I can’t wait to use it ‘in anger’ as opposed to tinkering here locally. So cool it’s going to be rolled into WP2.4. Congratulation.
>christoph
If you’re on Mac, I use CSSEdit. The product and guy behind it are excellent. If on Win then TopStyle is brilliant. Good-CSS-luck
Hello,
Two questions (requests) :
1) As Sandbox is to be included in WP distribution, It would be a good thing to have a tutorial about “how to port my current design to sandbox”. As a complete CSS newbie I’m totally unable to do that (and I’m probably not alone)
2) I failed to find the .po file required to translate the text items (and Sandbox seems pretty well getexted)
Luc
Check the Sandbox Forums for help making theme templates, designs, etc, with the Sandbox.
We’re looking to include the po/mo files with the actual 1.0 release, so check back in the next week.
Thanks Scott! Keep up the good work on Sandbox. It is truly amazing!
I seem to have encountered a bug that exists between the new version of Sandbox (Sandbox 1.0 RC 1) and the Wordpress 2.3.
When I attempt to create additional page templates such as page_about.php and page_contact.php (and provide the correct Template name for each php doc) they show up within the ‘Page Template’ option on the right hand side but are not implemented. When I select a new template from the menu and click ‘Save and Continue Editing’ the Page Template reverts back to ‘Default Template’. I have tried this for a number of pages and a number of templates and none have been successful.
I have tried re-uploading a clean version of Sandbox and the exact same problem occurs.
If someone knows a solution to this problem, it would greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Edward
Now that WordPress 2.3 has been released, will an update of Sandbox be released to cope with native tags? Or does someone have a patch?
I could use it.
And maybe I should read the Google Code page first…
Hi Scott, I’m waiting for the version 1.0 to migrate to wordpress 2.3 and sandbox 1.0 : my blog runs actually under Dotclear plateform ! So, I begin to have no excuse to make the switch
Any plans to get gravatars into the theme?
That would be cool for wordpress.com.
I love this theme, simple and nice…
Good for WP theme designer startup like me…
matt
I just started working with the sandbox theme and switched the sandbox-layout in the css and just wanted to come back here and tell you how cool you are!!! So easy, and just what I’ve been looking for… working on my own design based on it now. I’ll give you the link when I’m done!
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[...] I’ve been fiddling with the beta releases of WordPress 2.3, and so far things are working pretty well. Things will get more interesting when some plugins are updated, or new ones created, to take full advantage of the new tagging features, but right now it’s looking usable, and doesn’t seem to be breaking anything I need to be able to do. I’m taking the opportunity of having a fresh test site to give the look of Losing it[1],/strong> a bit of an overhaul. It won’t actually look much different, but the theme will be based on Sandbox rather than a hacked together mix of code form the Classic and Default themes, which is a bit of a mess. Once I’ve done all that, it should be a lot easier to modify it in future. [...]
[...] Well, not all that new, really. But what I have just finished working on is a new WordPress theme for Losing it[1]. As I mentioned a few days ago, the new version is based on the extreme cleverness known as Sandbox, or to be more precise on the release candidate of Sandbox 1.0. It was an interesting challenge, working out what I’d done in the past and making this fit into a more formally designed theme. While I was at it, I fixed a few things that were slightly annoying - in a few places, I had hard-coded links to images used in the theme (such as the little mood icons, and all those buttons on the sidebar). These are all defined with proper WordPress functions now, which means that if I want to use the theme on another site, I’ll have less tweaking to do. [...]
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