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sandbox-theme

Available VersionsThe latest release is Sandbox 1.6.1 for WordPress. The legacy release for WP 2.0.x users is Sandbox 0.9.x. If you are checking out the Sandbox, please note that \trunk releases may be unstable. The latest tagged release in the \tags folder is otherwise your best bet. About ... [More] the SandboxThe Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced designers will drool at the rich semantic markup and profusion of classes, dynamically generated by a few functions. Sandbox is a lot of things: Beautiful on the inside Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional Widgets friendly The basis for your GPL-licensed theme More importantly, the Sandbox can be a lot of things. What began as Scott's leftovers has become an advanced, semantics-based theme. Andy added his innovative semantic class-generating functions and Scott edited it to oblivion. So what can you do with the Sandbox? You can just use it as-is and have a super-cool, truly minimalist theme. You can thoroughly customize it with CSS alone. You can use its functions, files, et al, as pleases you. You can use it to learn a few things about CSS, XHTML, and PHP. The real feature of the Sandbox is its markup. The use of class-generating functions in the body, post div, and comment/trackback li elements create an exceptionally extensible foundation. As Andy said, "Given straightforward markup with plenty of selectors, there isn't much that can't be accomplished with CSS and a decent browser." And the implementation of the hAtom and hCard microformats means we're looking forward. You might be able to improve on our markup, but, well, who wants to work that hard? [Less]

blogtxt

Welcome to the home of the blog.txt theme development. Available VersionsThe current version of blog.txt, v4.6, is for WP 2.6.x. Legacy WP 2.0.x users may download blog.txt v3.1 About blog.txtBlog.txt is a content-centered theme for WordPress. Thoughtful attention to detail has gone into ... [More] developing this theme, resulting in hand-crafted text. This is a theme about letters, words, and sentences. The blog.txt theme features: a theme options menu, which allows control over fonts and text size control over the layout, alignment, etc. standards compliance with CSS 2.1 hAtom 0.1 hCard XHTML 1.0 Transitional a robust, thorough stylesheet highly semantic markup Widgets plugin ready option for enabling comments on pages Yet the heart of blog.txt is simplicity, minimalism. Here is a theme that compliments content, not one that distracts from it. [Less]

wp-plugin-dev

WordPress Plugin DevelopmentA collection of experiments from plaintxt.org These plugins are totally open source, wholly licensed by the GNU General Public License. These plugins have been developed to enhance the core functionality of WordPress, hopefully addressing issues outside the scope of the ... [More] base software. Blog SummaryBlog Summary produces a semantic, hAtom-enabled list of latest blog entries with excerpts, dates, and comments links that is generated with the shortcode [blog-summary] on any post or page. For WordPress 2.6.x. Custom Field WidgetCustom Field Widget displays values of custom field keys, allowing post- and page-specific meta sidebar content with limitless applications. For WordPress 2.6.x. Easy ContactEasy Contact is a simple, highly extensible XHTML contact form featuring spam-reduction measures, GUI customization, and shortcode-based insertion. For WordPress 2.6.x. Extended OptionsExtended Options keeps meta data and certain WordPress tweaks persistent regardless of the active theme and without modifying any files. For WordPress 2.6.x. [Less]

wp-theme-dev

These themes are totally open source, wholly licensed by the GNU General Public License. Some themes are stylesheet templates built on the rich semantics of the Sandbox, and others, well, are just creations.