Hey, guys and gals! It’s time to kick off the beta stage of the Prodigy development. Please use this site to post fixes, issues, and discussions about how I can make Prodigy the best theme framework available.
Also, feel free to ask questions about how Prodigy works, too. If there are any specific questions, I’d be happy to handle them.
If you would like access to post on this site, please email me and I’ll set you up with an account. This is a private beta, so please don’t broadcast this blog’s location to the world.
Nathan
Carlos Correza 10:59 am on June 29, 2009 Permalink |
first impression is good. I like that it doesn’t have millions of crazy options. it “feels” more like wordpress that way, as opposed to re-inventing the wheel. Pearson has a ton of controls but they make sense.
The problem I’ve run into with some ‘premium’ themes is; sometimes features and external rsources they support change over time and I end up having to re-write half the theme. I prefer to use hooks to inject whatever functionality I require again, that’s a nod to Chris Pearson and thesis. It seems like that’s the path you’re following with prodigy.
Something you’ve done that I like is to make use of child themes for style. That’s how Darren and Ben customize Mimbo Pro. You’ve really combined my favorite features from my favorite developers into your own unique framework.
I love how “thin” the framework is. This is really nice clean work.
Nathan Rice 9:17 pm on June 29, 2009 Permalink |
Options are great. And at some point, I’ll probably add some functions that make it really easy to create an options page for you child theme. But I doubt highly there will ever be an options page that is displayed by default for any theme that uses Prodigy. Still thinking about it, though.
Abstraction is the main reason I build this framework … by getting all markup generated hooked to some action hook, it makes modifications really easy to make and protect when you upgrade. I’m glad you like that part too!
Keeping styles out of the framework is something I’m fairly committed to. It has pros and cons, but I’ve chosen to do it this way for very specific reasons. I hope it turns out well.
Thanks for the feedback. Keep using the theme and come back often to let me know what could be done better!
Keith S. 5:16 pm on June 29, 2009 Permalink |
I haven’t done much with Prodigy short of installing it on my dev server and setting up some sample content for it, but from what I’ve seen so far, I REALLY like it.
Nathan Rice 9:18 pm on June 29, 2009 Permalink |
REALLY good to hear!!! I hope you’ll come back here and give some good feedback once you have a little more experience with it. Thanks!
Vix 11:06 pm on June 30, 2009 Permalink |
The only problem I’m having so far is my inability to add new widget sidebars but I see from above that you’ve caught that bug.
I’ll be porting over one of my themes tonight and I’ll report any issues I encounter.