The really NEW Theme Viewer

  • Just a brief post to let people know that the Theme Viewer at https://themes.wordpress.net is about to go into the workshop for some major modifications.

    This will be quite a big task and will also see the unifying of several theme viewers in the process. Silkjaer will be joining the team and bringing with him his excellent coding as seen at the Theme Park – https://webdesignbook.net/themes/

    Obviously, the outcome for the WP community will be a great one as it will bring together a lot of people who are passionate about WordPress all working on the one project under the same roof.

    And here is your opportunity to express your ideas as to what kind of setup you would like to see in the new viewer.

    For instance, the inclusion of the upload function will be a big bonus for designers and us alike, and there will be many more features included in the new layout.

    So let us know what you would like to see and where possible, we will try to accommodate your ideas.

    Oh and just a small request if possible. This whole project and the ones before it have all been setup and maintained by volunteers. If you feel that you need to express your anger and frustration at Shadow or the theme viewer in general, then perhaps do it on your own blogs. The forum rules still apply to this thread.

    Let’s see those ideas rolling in…

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  • Please note that I no longer have anything whatsoever to do with the WordPress Theme Viewer and all theme submissions should now be sent to the new administrator.

    So long and thanks for all the fish…

    Amie

    (@sunburntkamel)

    i’m sorry for my hand in the drama that’s culminated in shadow stepping down. if there’s anything i can do to help, send an email to wp-admin [at] archgfx.net

    i think at this point everyone who cares, already knows which features i value, and i do think that all of the features of webdesignbook.net/themes would be a benefit to the official theme viewer.

    I would like to keep people updated on the progress, so this is how the situation with the viewer is right now.

    Shadow has left the project, so I am responsible for it now – this has caused that no new themes has been uploaded to the viewer for some time, although they are all in my inbox. I have chosen to _not_ upload the new themes in order to focus on developing the new viewer, where it is going to be possible to upload themes yourself.

    The situation on the development looks like this:

    TODO

    • Rating plugin
      Being able to rate a theme when commenting on it
    • Upload page
      Upload a theme front-end
    • Design
      Gallery design
    • Tagging the current themes
      huuuge job – might need some help on this ??
    • Tag list
      Predefined tag list, to choose tags from, when uploading a theme

    Done

    • Download counter
      Counts downloads and makes it possible to sort all themes by downloads
    • Theme handling
      the whole theme handling system…</em
    • Theme uploading
      Theme uploading, unpacking, installing etc
    • Sorting options
      Select tags to see, sort by title, date, downloads etc
    • Blog
      Dev blog
    • Snapshotting
      Automatically create snapshots of themes
    • Test run blog
      The test run blog

    A future idea is to create a plugin for WordPress, that automatically installs any theme from the viewer, just by typing in the theme viewers theme-id – comments on this?

    A future idea is to create a plugin for WordPress, that automatically installs any theme from the viewer, just by typing in the theme viewers theme-id – comments on this?

    You might wanna give this a look. https://mattread.com/projects/wp-plugins/installer-the-plugin/

    alphaoide> Indeed, I have talked to him about it, and will probably be in close cooperation with him, if it is to be ??

    Here’s a request: mandating themes unzip to their own directories and check that directory structure upon uploading.

    Also, I’m worried about the maliciousness of submitted themes. (they are of course php files which can run any code). Maybe have some kind of peer review system to test and approve themes??

    ruckerz2k> good point.. Ill think about some ideas..

    E a 1o vex ke posto

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