[Chapter-delegates] WordPress theme issue tracker and example sites - Re: Website Templates Now Available

[Dan York]

Klaus,

I'm glad you are pleased with the issue tracker and I did think of you and your past comments when I enabled the "Issues" area for the theme repository.  I'm personally a heavy user of Github for a variety of projects and so it was for me a logical place to put the WordPress theme and to track issues.   I look forward to seeing any issues you raise.   I also put it on Github as an experiment in using the "auto update" feature mentioned in the documentation which should theoretically let you all easily receive updates to the WordPress theme whenever a block of updates are made.  (Please note the "experiment" wording... this auto-update piece *should* work, but it's all a test. :-)

Note, too, that part of the reason for using Github was to allow a more collaborative development model for the theme. If any of you look at the (current or future) issues and know how to fix them, you are certainly welcome to contribute fixes. Marcin Cieślak from ISOC Poland has already contributed a number of fixes that have made the theme better for all of us.

>  that obviously is used by the author himself. 


Just to be clear on the authorship, we (Internet Society) actually had an external design firm create the original WordPress theme that I then used for the Deploy360 site and wound up modifying in various ways.  For this chapter template, Dan Graham and I outlined to the design firm the changes we wanted to have to make it work for chapters.  They came back with changes to which I then made some modifications and then to which Marcin Cieślak contributed a few changes as well. 

So what you are seeing is the combined work of a number of people.  My name is all over the theme on Github simply because I'm the one who uploaded the theme there and who is currently managing the repository.

If you'd like to see what the WordPress theme can look like for your chapter, here is the sample site where I have been testing the theme out:

http://danyork.me/isoc-chapter/

If you have IPv6 access (because it is on an IPv6-only network), you can also visit our special site for Global INET that uses the WordPress theme (with one slight modification):

http://ipv6.internetsociety.org/

And the Deploy360 site is based on this theme (although still using a slightly earlier version), but uses what is called a "child theme" to make a range of modifications to the theme to customize it for what we wanted:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/

At some point when I get a moment in here I'm hoping to write up more on this "child theme" process in case any of you want to make more extensive modifications of the base WordPress theme.  It works really well in that it lets you have a "customization layer" that sits on top of the base theme but lets you upgrade the base theme when there are updates available. Probably not something most of you will want to do, but for those who want to heavily customize the theme it provides a way to easily do so. I have a few pointers in the existing documentation.

Regards,
Dan

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On Apr 20, 2012, at 3:56 AM, Klaus Birkenbihl wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> thanks for this. Though I did not have the opportunity to check it I'm
> pleased to see that it comes with an issue tracker (integrated in
> github) that obviously is used by the author himself. (see
> https://github.com/InternetSociety/isoc-wp/issues?page=1&state=open
> for wp) After all the fuzz we still have with tacking errors for the
> .org site: this is great!
> 
> Best, Klaus
> 
> Dan Graham wrote on 2012-04-19 15:03:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> You can now find WordPress, Drupal (versions 6 and 7) and Joomla templates for your websites here: 
>> 
>> http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/chapters/start/chapter-resources (second item on the page).
>> 
>> I'd like to thank the Comms-Dev group for its constructive feedback. Special thanks goes to Dan York for all of his  help with the WordPress theme (much appreciated Dan!).
>> 
>> If you have any questions/comments, please use feedback at isoc.org.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> Dan Graham
>> Internet Society
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