Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

This is awesome! I've often lamented how messy Wordpress is compared to Rails. Yet, there's nothing as mature and easy for anyone to use as Wordpress in Rails.

Re: Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

#5

Post by prima-facie » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 4:51 PM UTC

> Ability to write Coffeescript instead of the boring, oldish Javascript;

stopped reading right there.

Re: Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

#6

Post by josefresco » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 4:54 PM UTC

Looks like a whole bunch of stuff I'm not sure anyone (WP theme devs) was asking for. Cool project though, I'm just not sure the added layers really benefit developers much who are already used to the current system.

Re: Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

#7

Post by dangrossman » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 4:54 PM UTC

Shouldn't that be "stop writing WordPress themes like it's 2003"?

Re: Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

#8

Post by josefresco » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 4:56 PM UTC

steffoz wrote: post #2

I would love to hear some comments from you. I think this really speeds up custom Wordpress theme creation.

IF you're not already familiar with the theme creation process already. Seems like a solution for engineers whom are encountering WP for the first time. Which may not be bad thing as WP has been around some time.

Re: Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

#9

Post by pseudonimble » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

I've got a feeling most people writing Wordpress themes wont meet the requirement of having Ruby installed.

Re: Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

#10

Post by j45 » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 4:59 PM UTC

tibbon wrote: post #4

This is awesome! I've often lamented how messy Wordpress is compared to Rails. Yet, there's nothing as mature and easy for anyone to use as Wordpress in Rails.

Rails is a framework, while frameworks do cool things, developers in any language are not always out to build a piece of software that's like a swiss army knife like Wordpress.

The rails communitys' exuberance to simplify and automate everything in sight hasn't quite reached wordpress yet. In the mean time there's gems, I guess.