Hi Daryl, About theming, you might look at how Mephisto handled it.
I'd recommend trying to get one or two other programmers involved in what you do with SimpleLog. It really is a matter of having a number of groups invest in a platform for it to be successful, well, as far as open source CMS' go, anyway. Cheers, N. On Jan 24, 2:26 pm, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, seriously thinking about taking the old SimpleLog code (which I ran for > a while and was very good) and updating/using it as a base for my own > purposes and adding a few features I want. > > One thing I was wondering, does anyone know enough about the wordpress > theming engine to give me some pointers on what it would take to write > something that could take existing wordpress themes and convert them over > (or at least have some drop in compatibility with a rails blog theme engine > ?) ? > > Daryl. > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Nicholas Faiz > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Thanks Sutto - I'm going to spend 30 minutes messing about with > > Refinery now. > > > Gary (buzzware) - yeh, community is the main determinant for the > > success of a CMS, and it would be foolish to look past available > > options. Having said that, there are different degrees of openness and > > different ideas about what CMS' should do across the various projects, > > so contributing isn't always the best idea. > > > Cheers, > > Nicholas > > > On Jan 23, 12:34 am, buzzware <[email protected]> wrote: > > > FWIW I would be saddened to see another weekend hack Ruby CMS, but I'd > > > love > > > to see these company-backed ones (refinery, browsercms) made awesome. > > > Being Ruby and on GitHub, its pretty easy to make modifications that > > > can be eventually merged into the main codebase. > > > > If you must start from scratch (and there may be good reasons to) I > > > would > > > like to add that I think Radiants "no fluff" attitude sets the bar too > > > low > > > for what should be core functionality. eg. the ability to reorder > > > pages > > > in Radiant requires an extension, and I couldn't find one as natural > > > to use > > > as bcms's built in drag and drop. > > > There are things that are very hard to add later , > > > and there are things that are necessary for 90% of projects with > > > non-technical users eg. a decent editor - that should be in early. > > > Along these lines I would strongly suggest making it an engine or > > > whatever that can integrate with an existing app eg. Spree or plain > > > Rails > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
