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2009-06-12 08:02:36
Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
beztak, mrdale, maverick > thanks for the props, glad the plugin’s useful. I’ve created the topic for the plugin so we’ll upsticks and move discussion there…
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2009-06-19 17:33:57
Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
Hi all!
I would like to contribute an admin theme, but a few things I don’t understand.
I asume I have to install a developer version of 4.0.9, but I don’t no how to do so?
The documentation doesn’t they that much, is there a theme to learn from?
Maybe these questions are a bit stupid, sorry if so :-)
Nevertheless, thanks in advance for answering.
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2009-06-19 17:47:09
- johnstephens
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Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
Getting the development version of TXP requires Subversion— you can check it out from the repository here.
The terminal command if you have Subversion in a Unix-like environment would be this:
svn checkout http://textpattern.googlecode.com/svn/development/4.x dev
Once you have a working version, you can run this command in that directory to update it to the latest version at any time:
svn update
Someone can correct me if there’s another way to get the development version.
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2009-07-07 12:12:24
Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
there are also quite a few programs that offer SVN in a graphical interface, i finally preferred that and chose smartSVN. see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Subversion_clients
(if you use mac os x and have kept your system up-to-date with fink, you can also use that to get SVN and then simply type svn checkout http://textpattern.googlecode.com/svn/development/4.x dev into the terminal.)
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2009-08-30 05:39:56
- philipashlock
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- Real name: Philip Ashlock
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Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
After hearing about the improvements to the admin theme infrastructure I was confused to install 4.2 and not see any changes. The admin theme option seems a little hidden and odd that Remora isn’t on by default. Surely a safety precaution, but nonetheless…
I’m not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I made some optimizations for the new Remora admin theme. The changes are a little subtle and actually just done via CSS. They’re mostly enhancements that take advantage of CSS3 properties (rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients, selectors), but there’s also a separation of the Logout and View Site links (something that should really be done in the markup, but figured I’d just do in css for now). Some of the CSS3 enhancements only take effect in Firefox at the moment, but they should be forward-compatible. So far only tested in FF 3.5 and Safari 4.0.2. The changes might be brittle, but ready for others to improve.
Have a look:
http://dropbox.ashlock.us/textpattern/remora-optimized/screenshot.png
CSS Available at:
http://dropbox.ashlock.us/textpattern/remora-optimized/textpattern.css
Last edited by philipashlock (2009-08-30 05:43:24)
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2009-08-30 09:29:50
Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
philipashlock wrote:
The admin theme option seems a little hidden and odd that Remora isn’t on by default.
‘classic’ remains the TXP default theme. Remora is an option to show how admin themes can alter stuff. Switching and altering themes can be made more ‘visible’ via my smd_admin_themes plugin if you wish.
I made some optimizations for the new Remora admin theme.
Nice work. Separation of the logout link is a nice touch — I’ve hit that by mistake a few times already in the default remora :-)
Once you’ve tested it to destruction and are happy, you may want to name it something else (e.g. psk_remora or something else entirely: it is advisable to use a three letter prefix in custom themes) and upload it to Textgarden
btw, smd_admin_themes will help you package up your themes for distribution to the community, and makes editing them a bit more graphical. Plus you can install others and configure the plugin to allow per-privilege or per user themes.
Last edited by Bloke (2009-08-30 09:31:22)
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2009-10-24 02:27:44
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Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
Sorry to come in so late but my question is, if I design something and hand over a JPG or PDF rather than CSS’ing everything, would someone be interested in laying it out?
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2009-10-28 01:59:58
- philipashlock
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Re: Looking for a community-picked Textpattern admin theme
zeusdidit wrote:
Sorry to come in so late but my question is, if I design something and hand over a JPG or PDF rather than CSS’ing everything, would someone be interested in laying it out?
Possibly, but I’m pretty behind in even refining my minor tweak. I’d highly recommend that you create your mockup and provide the source graphics (ideally something like PSD or AI or something not flattened), so that you can express your ideas for improvements and then eventually somebody can come along and do the markup/css.
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