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Another redesign based on Tarski; when I asked Craig Burgess how Tarski (possibly not an obvious basis for a site this colourful) helped him make it, he said
I just wanted to make as wacky of a design as I could, and Tarski made it really easy for me. I’ve used Wordpress for too many years now, and Tarski is the first theme I’ve come across that has made it truly easier for me to customise.
Sebastian Nordlund of Rawkstyle’s rather nice redesign is based on Tarski; the texture at the top is engagingly warm, and all the better for not being overwrought.
Seeing other people base original designs on Tarski’s codebase wasn’t something I really expected when we first released the theme, but there have actually been a number of them.
Tick Different is based on Tarski. Gorgeous colours combine into a dark, rich style—reminds me of expensive chocolate.
WordPress 2.0.5 will be out fairly soon, and as soon as the release version arrives we’ll be testing it to ensure Tarski’s compatibility.
Forumgoer Jinkies has made a clever Tarski-based gallery, with a tiny bit of help from the support forum. Well worth checking out.
The roadmap has been updated to give a more accurate and complete picture of what’s going to be in 1.2, but I thought I’d write up a brief summary of where things stand and where we go from here.
Firstly, I’ve rewritten a fair amount of the CSS, to make it more flexible and extensible. Content areas (such as entries, comments and so on) are now denoted by the content class, while the two columns are referred to by primary and secondary classes. This replaces a large and disparate set of classes and ids, making the code cleaner and easier to extend and modify. Additional stylesheets, for example, should now be much easier to write.
Secondly, Chris has been working on the Tarski Options page, cleaning it up and improving it substantially. We hope that the new version will be easier and more intuitive to use.
There are also the usual raft of tweaks and improvements, including the much-requested pagination and next/previous links, better trackback and language support, and a new and improved loop.php file which should make modifications based on the Tarski code much easier to implement.
Because there are such substantial alterations to the code, we want to run a small test before releasing it publicly. Sign up for the 1.2 beta on this forum thread.
Beta applications are now closed.
Tags: 1.2, beta test, customisability, features, forum, modifications, roadmap, theme hooks, themes, tweaks
Tim De Smedt has posted a tag modification for the Canvas version of Tarski on the forum. Essentially, it improves the tags page that’s bundled with Tarski for Canvas. Great to see people posting their contributions on the forum.
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