Sandbox Theme
August 8th, 2006
A theme for themers is how Scott is calling it, Sandbox is a cutting edge approach to WP themes. With built in style switcher, Sandbox allows for users to customize several different layouts, single column, left or right side bar, 3 column, you get the picture.
What’s more interesting are the comments from Matt, in which he believes Sandbox can be used as the basis of a new default theme for WordPress in a future release. Personally, I have an issue with a theme that extensively uses a functions page to create it’s own template tags and functions, but I can see the benefit of offering it in the download. (Sandbox is also the basis of the wordpress.com’s new paid feature, which allows users to finally customize their CSS).
Lorelle has created a blank CSS style sheet to facillitate customizing the theme, which will help immensely in customizing.
Regardless of it’s role in future releasess of WP, the dynamic classes and forward thinking approaches to the code will further theme development for WP.
Update:A K2 looking mod of Sandbox.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Thanks for spreading the word about this. And please note that the CSS stylesheet is a work in process. I’m adding new styles all the time and uploading a new copy. All help to add more is appreciated. Greatly!
Thanks.
This looks good – hope it’s really easy to skin!