This is a work in progress, but I thought I give you a peek into what I'm working at: http://www.soderlind.no/archives/2009/10/23/css-editor/
The prerequisites will be:
- WordPress and WordPress MU 2.8.4 or newer
- PHP 5.x
- The Sandbox theme.
Please use the comment field at soderlind.no if you have any questions / suggestions. Please don't ask when it's done. This is a midnight hack, my family and day job have priority.
So it's basically a CSS editor for the sandbox theme?
Looks like the method we use on ours, just with the Sandbox requirement.
We gutted the editor out of xiando's social networking pack, made it so that it would save the files instead of displaying them within the head of the outputted html, and saved it as different file names depending on the name of the theme. That way when the enduser changed their theme, their changes would still be there from last time.
We filter with the HTML purifier as well. This project is what got us onto to that.
The only thng I've not sat down and figured out was an easy way to change between the different sidebar arrangements within Sandbox.
Reference: http://xsnp.livelyblog.com/
Yep, we gutted that same one. :D Only thing we need to do before release is the HTML purifier.
But there's still a half-dozen plugins like this out there.
Yes it's a css editor for the Sandbox template, the reason I ended up with Sandbox is that it already exists a lot of styles for it, both on http://www.wordpress.com and at http://sndbx.org/results/designs/
Since this is pre-ß, nothing is decided, it might support other templates also .. hmm, when I think about it, maybe it also should support http://960.gs/ and http://blueprintcss.org/
And yes, I know there's a lot of similar plugins out there, but so what, the sailing season is over in Norway, it's getting colder every day and I needed a midnight project :)
andrea and tdjcbe, when will you release your css editors to the public ?
No ETA on ours, other than "soon-ish".
I'll pass without comment. To be honest, the one from xiando works fine.
edit: There are others as well. Searching the forums for discussion about 'css editor' should pull them up. May have to use google or yahoo though as they're probably buried now with folks asking over and oveer again.
