Trying to catch the day.
I just published an update on what’s going on with the Notes themes. Be sure to read it if you’re into that sort of thing.
A few of you have asked me of Twitter regarding my previous theme here. It was a child theme for Notes Blog, and will be either merged with the theme or released as a free child theme later on.
WordPress 3.1 is out, and as promised I’m releasing the Notes Blog theme. However, it’s not on wordpress.org yet because I’m a bit turned off about the time they’re taking on theme approvals right now. Until the themes that I have in the pipe are approved, I’m not submitting any more.
That means we’re looking at a public beta phase since I won’t do a sharp 1.0 release outside of wordpress.org. Get the Notes Blog theme here, and be sure to let me know what you think.
The guys a WPCandy didn’t think to include me in their future of WordPress themes post, which says something about how active I’ve been in the WordPress community the past year or so I guess. After all, I’ve just sold tens of thousands of WordPress books and release free themes and…
Nah, just kidding. I’m pretty low key and I like to keep it that way. The post sparked my mind though, so let me give you my thoughts about the future of WordPress themes this year. Continued →
The new Notes Blog theme, detailed in this post, is now officially ready for release. It’s a first public version and as such it will probably contains some weird stuff you guys will have things to say about, but all in all I think it’s pretty solid. Rather, I know it is solid, it’s being used in serious projects already and have been running in closed beta for quite some time.
There’s really just one thing holding it off, and that’s the fact that Notes Blog requires WordPress 3.1, which is still in RC2 as I’m writing this. There will be an RC3 as far as I can tell from the core developer’s communiques, so the final release of version 3.1 (which I’m running here already, by the way) is probably a week or two away.
Frustrating.
I’ve been debating whether to upload the beta version anyway, but since I’d get a ton of “why did this break?” questions if I did, I’m holding off. You’ll have to wait, and so will I. Hopefully it’ll be worth it.
PS. This post is indeed a sign of things to come, and a shift in communication regarding the development behind the Notes themes. The idea is to keep more practical stuff, for users, on the Notes site, while I might blabber about decisions and other things here. I think it’ll make sense in the end.
I’m happy to see the ideas on how to improve the P2 theme for WordPress keep popping up in the comments. Will act on a few as soon as Notes Blog is out in beta.
The beta release of the new Notes Blog theme for WordPress (part of the revamped Notes concept) is getting closer, so it was about time that notesblog.com, home of the Notes project, switched to the beta.
Be sure to check out some of the other sites rolling the closed Notes Blog beta. The public one is due soon, so stay tuned for more on that.
Did you know that Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog is an excellent way to get more out of my theme, Notes Blog Core? You do know – read more over at the Notes Blog site.
I’m happy to see that the core development team behind WordPress have decided to adapt a less chaotic project management method for WordPress 3.0 and beyond. A blog post on the WordPress dev blog, written by Jane Wells, details this well. It also points to a forum thread where the community can discuss what features we really want for 3.0, so that the feature freeze can be set and the work can get a bit more focused.
That is opposed to everyone pushing their very own favorite features and making every release of WordPress grow and grow and grow, before it finally hits feature freeze. Less features per release means more time to squash bugs, and hopefully that will mean that silly stuff like scheduled posts breaking like it did with version 2.9 (the upcoming 2.9.1 will fix that, meanwhile use this plugin) won’t happen as easily. Continued →
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