Poll: Want to get together and code a WP 2.0 template?

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under Coding, GeekLimit News, Geeky

Atariboy and I tested out a groupware collaboration tool, and it worked pretty well.

I was wondering of all you PHP/WP Template coders out there would like to get together and work on a WordPress template together. I figure if we can get 2 dozen (or more) people simultaneously working on the 10 files or so of a wordpress template, we could come up with a pretty good one in a short amount of time (I'm thinking a half hour or so). We'd just have to remember not to get too spastic and type over each other…*cough*atariboy*cough*

Time zones would be a little hard to overcome, but since 95% of our readership is in the US/UK, we might have to plan for a weekend (Sunday afternoon is my vote). The tool works very well, and I can arrange to have it on its own server/T1 for the night if we need to, so don't worry about that. If enough people are interested, I'll put out another poll as to what time of day (based on US Eastern time or something), and what existing template we might start with, if any. Please let us know if you're interested.

The template would be available for download and usage by anyone, of course. Anyone who is involved would be welcome to put a single line of commented-out text at the top of whatever file they improve upon…but we can't make 20MB of comments, so we'll have to limit it at one line, maybe 20 char or so…

Comments (9) | May 11th, 2006

9 Responses to “Poll: Want to get together and code a WP 2.0 template?”

  1. Jesse Says:
    May 11, 2006 at 5:47 pm

    That sounds pretty darn cool. I’ve always wanted to do something like that. I’d be all for it if you schedule it at a good time

  2. AtariBoy Says:
    May 12, 2006 at 2:44 am

    We need a new theme, and soon!

  3. Russ Says:
    May 12, 2006 at 4:08 am

    The thing you need more then anying else is the right design in the first place.
    If you make a base page will all the major elements in it in propper CSS (Style and Layout) then you can do the job in about 20 minutes.

  4. The Technocrat Says:
    May 12, 2006 at 8:28 am

    The software we’re looking at has a tabbed interface, so a few people could work on the sidebar while a few others check out the CSS, etc. When we’re done, I’ll zip the files up and put it on GeekLimit as a complete template

  5. taoski Says:
    May 12, 2006 at 9:20 am

    Never done a PHP template before!
    I’ll bring beer….

  6. Anshul Says:
    May 13, 2006 at 10:26 am

    I have just completed my 1st wp template. Its available on my blog for download. I will be more than happy to help you guys out with any sort of coding or designing. Let me know if there is anything that I can do.

  7. The Technocrat Says:
    May 13, 2006 at 10:41 am

    cool! Well, it looks like we have a few people that are interested, So I’ll be piutting a pol out there soon as to times and baseline templates to work off of.

    nice template! (looks like you have a WXGA screen like me! :-)

  8. Anshul Says:
    May 14, 2006 at 1:29 am

    LOL yea, I do have a WXGA screen thats why the wide look. Only problem is that I am based in Singapore and as such time might be an issue, but since I am a student, and all students like to work late, bring it on and make this theme the best ever for wp.

  9. Jeremiah Says:
    May 18, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    I think you’re going to run into the issue of clashing ideas. You know, every coders doesn’t do things the same way.

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