Learning About Wordpress Frameworks

One of the great things about Wordpress is the vibrant community and projects that grow to support it. Theme frameworks come in a variety of forms, from simple starting points for a custom theme, to full theme solutions with many bells and whistles.

Most of my Wordpress theme work has centered around hand crafted solutions for each client but this has meant I have started from close to scratch for each project. Over the next couple of months I plan to evaluate a variety of frameworks to see what I can learn and how much I can package to speed up some of the production work.

I am not sure if I will find one that fits my needs or if I will blend a few together to make my own framework but I anticipate learning a good bit about customizing the entire theming experience.

My goals include:

  • Creating a theme option page to allow user customizable options such as a header graphic
  • Exploring the new version of Flutter
  • Integrate it with my CSS reset and general styles
  • Allowing widgetized sidebars if it will not break the design

Some frameworks that I will be exploring:

And here are a few useful tutorials about theming:

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2 Responses to “Learning About Wordpress Frameworks”

  1. Kent Bye Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Drupal also has a huge community, however it’s more of a developer community, and so while there’s an incredible amount of functionality, it’s in dire need of great designers and themers.

    I just actually wrapped up an introductory training video on Drupal theming from Lullabot.
    http://www.lullabot.com/articles/announcing-our-latest-video-theming-basics-drupal

  2. Tyler Sticka Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    I’ll be very interested in following your experiences, but I will say that I’ve steered clear of theming frameworks for fear of unnecessary bloat. As much as I adore WordPress, the real test will be if it’s a reasonable alternative to Drupal (as Kent mentioned).

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