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6:44 pm
21 Jan 2007
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dizzy99
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Would be really handy to have all the visualisation for the forum moved to a template or set of templates.
This way future upgrades won’t effect the worked on forum styles.
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Interesting idea - let me give that one some thought…
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10:02 am
22 Jan 2007
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dizzy99
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Glad you think its a good idea.
I’m dying to work on some styles but the way it currently works it would mean applying the edits to each new build. If we can externally remove the formatting to a template file and include it instead from the offset, future builds will apply bug fixes and new features, leaving the styles intact for updating with new additions.
Add a splice of CSS formatting and theme layout and you could have hundreds of themes based on the same code structure.
The we could just offer custom themes by downloading CSS styles images and template files.
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But you do know that 90% of the formatting is done with a CSS file anyway don’t you? It is in the ‘resources’ folder of the plugin. Not done with CSS are the icons and a certain amount of the table column widths etc. But this I can start to change when I have 1.3 stable…
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9:11 pm
22 Jan 2007
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dizzy99
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Its actually the layout i wish to change. The tables for instance to a more vbulletin style. I can do this but need to edit core files to do so hence the reason for a template file.
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I’m thinking it through…. 
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6:37 am
25 Jan 2007
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Tanya
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Hi, just looking for info on styling and would LOVE to have easier styling on css and table widths. Would also love to be able to import all of my info from my existing Simple Machines Forum. Haven’t checked if that is possible yet, wanted to know how far I could style it to my brand before installing.
Thanks for the work.
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I’m planning on releasing a 1.4 version which will address most of the outstanding feature requests I have received along with some tidy-ups etc., before looking at separation of template and styling. I know this seems to be high on peoples list but much prefer to get all things working properly before tackling that as it is a biggie in terms of development effort. Probably enough to earn it a V2 tag
All I can say is that I have some ideas on the best way to do this and am going t give it a try but it will take a week or two I should imagine. Keep an eye out for it.
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9:03 pm
25 Jan 2007
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Tanya
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Yes, I understand that… looking forward to the eventual V2 then. Will definitely look out for it.
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1:51 am
28 Jan 2007
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ovizii
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hello Andy,
regaring themes and styling I have seen a very nice way to d oit, but I fear I might not be able to describe it accurately, but I’ll try:
I saw it when I tried my luck with RSdiscuss (http://www.sargant.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/rs-discuss/) another forum plugin, there you have a kind of grafical selector for all colors used iside the forum, so you can just exchange a color code, save, check how it looks, get back make another change.
I think this method would be great (remember I am watching the whole thing from the wpmu perspective, I’d like to have it foolproof for any user, so each blogowner can change his style easily and adapt it to his blogtheme…
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Well my first move is to separate framework and style CSS which I am doing at the moment. This will allow for easier ’skinning’ - sort of like the WP ‘Sandbox’ theme. After that…? Maybe possible.
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