Comments on: Looking for some plugin strategy feedback http://freepressblog.org/blog/2006/06/26/looking-for-some-plugin-strategy-feedback/ A collection of my thoughts and other random stuff I found interesting. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: JB http://freepressblog.org/blog/2006/06/26/looking-for-some-plugin-strategy-feedback/#comment-4808 JB Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:48:00 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2006/06/26/looking-for-some-plugin-strategy-feedback/#comment-4808 Good idea, but most of the stuff I'm thinking of is rules that are specifically related to more detailed changes in the way the lists appear, like margins, padding, borders, etc. As for color tweaking in particular, ideally (IMHO), any well designed theme will already have overall rules about what color links should be, and some general rules about how lists and titles in the sidebar (and most other common page elements) should look, because these things should be consistent in a good theme. Then there is the other issue I have with the styles being defined in two different places using two different techniques. That being said, I think maybe you're still right, in that there are a lot of people out there who are interested in playing with various themes but not interested at all in playing with CSS, so maybe the best of both worlds would be an admin page that lets the user edit some easy properties (like colors and maybe some others) along with a checkbox option to ignore all those tweaks for the people who actually want to let the theme CSS manage the whole style of the site. Good idea, but most of the stuff I’m thinking of is rules that are specifically related to more detailed changes in the way the lists appear, like margins, padding, borders, etc.

As for color tweaking in particular, ideally (IMHO), any well designed theme will already have overall rules about what color links should be, and some general rules about how lists and titles in the sidebar (and most other common page elements) should look, because these things should be consistent in a good theme. Then there is the other issue I have with the styles being defined in two different places using two different techniques.

That being said, I think maybe you’re still right, in that there are a lot of people out there who are interested in playing with various themes but not interested at all in playing with CSS, so maybe the best of both worlds would be an admin page that lets the user edit some easy properties (like colors and maybe some others) along with a checkbox option to ignore all those tweaks for the people who actually want to let the theme CSS manage the whole style of the site.

]]> By: Dan http://freepressblog.org/blog/2006/06/26/looking-for-some-plugin-strategy-feedback/#comment-4809 Dan Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:27:34 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2006/06/26/looking-for-some-plugin-strategy-feedback/#comment-4809 Have a control panel page where they select the colors, similar to the shoutbox plugin. Then have an advanced CSS where the user can edit the stuff they cannot edit within the panel, stuff rarely customized that aren't just colors. Have a control panel page where they select the colors, similar to the shoutbox plugin. Then have an advanced CSS where the user can edit the stuff they cannot edit within the panel, stuff rarely customized that aren’t just colors.

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