Last. Themes. Posted.

Posted by Geoffrey Grosenbach Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:07:00 GMT

Fuzzy clock says “five afta’ twelve,” and I’ve posted the last theme that made it in before the deadline!

The final tally is over 120 new Typo themes! Wow.

I’ll send voting info to the judges tomorrow.

I also owe one year Rails blog hosting packages with Planet Argon to the first ten themes from way back in October. I’ll send those out tomorrow.

Good luck, everyone!

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  1. Marco said 32 minutes later:

    Awesome job Geoffrey. That must have been some hard working.

    Now may the best theme win. Good luck to everyone!

  2. Leevi Graham said about 3 hours later:

    120 themes…. holy s#$t that is awesome… may typo “live long and prosper”..

    Great work Geoffrey and to all the guys / girls who added a typo theme

  3. Brian Carr said about 6 hours later:

    That’s crap load of themes. Good luck to all the entris.

  4. Doug Alcorn said about 6 hours later:

    120 themes is awesome! It’s a great collection of work. Congratulations to everyone who participated. All of the work is valuable to the community with or without prizes.

  5. Gary Wilson said about 9 hours later:

    All said and done, after making six themes and submitting four, I think I may switch from Drupal to Typo. It’s so gosh-darn easy to use and I’ve been playing around with extending it. I’m having too much fun to stop.

  6. Santy said about 10 hours later:

    120! congratulations to everybody.

  7. Ben Bleything said about 20 hours later:

    Any chance of a massively huge archive of all of them? A torrent perhaps? I know I’d like to check all of the themes out without going through and downloading each one…

  8. Adrian said 1 day later:

    I’m gonna applaud till my hands bleed. Great job everyone! :)

  9. Eric said 3 days later:

    Looks like we need a theme-switcher siderbar now.

    120, damn thats a lot.

  10. Ben Bleything said 6 days later:

    Hmm… so I’ve downloaded a number of themes (about 8), and with one exception, none of them show anything when you’re on the article’s page. The main page shows fine, but if you click the title of an article you get a blank page.

    I’m running off of current trunk as of tonight… this has been happening since the day the contest ended, when I was running on the then-current trunk.

    It appears that the views that come with the themes aren’t overriding the built-ins. Anybody got any ideas?

  11. Ernie Oporto said 6 days later:

    I see the same thing Ben, and running off build 764.

  12. Kyle said 6 days later:

    Ben,

    As my major complaint – typo completely changed the way body HTML is retrieved right after 2.6.0

    Thus, my theme works in trunk and not current stable builds. People complained about it, but that’s the reason I chose it. Because my method will continue to work in futureversions.

    Themes written for 2.6.0 will not be compatable with any future version of Typo as it stands now.

  13. Ben Bleything said 6 days later:

    Kyle – You might have done the only one I have that works ;) Which was yours?

  14. Kyle said 6 days later:

    Hemingway.. didn’t realize Typo didn’t remember my URL for some reason.

  15. Marco said 6 days later:

    Mine was also developed for Typo Trunk.

  16. Bastiaan Terhorst said 7 days later:

    Why aren’t we told these things on the contest page? I think that’s really weird.

    Anyway.

    If anyone could summarize the changes, or link to something explaining them, that would be great. So I can update my theme…

  17. Marco said 7 days later:

    Bastiaan> It’s fairly easy to figure it out. Just install a Trunk build and install your theme. Check the views templates in the Trunk build and you’ll be able to update it. It’s not that much that changed really. It just looks like that because some things break totally. Easy to fix though.

  18. Piers Cawley said 7 days later:

    AFAIR, the methods that are supported in trunk typo are all there in 2.6.0 and you should use those. What we should have done is put deprecation warnings on the old messages and for that we apologize.

    We really did have to change the interface I’m afraid, otherwise we couldn’t get the new text filtering stuff to work, and they do some really handy stuff.

  19. Bastiaan Terhorst said 7 days later:

    Okay I updated my theme. It was much easier than I had anticipated. Excellent :)

  20. Kyle said 7 days later:

    Nope Piers. There’s quite a lot changed actually.

    For one, none of the article_html, or comment_html helpers are in 2.6.0. For two, there is no html accessor (I’m assuming that was an added column to the db). These are two pretty drastic changes that don’t allow any “quick fixes” on 2.6.0 to get trunk themes working.

    You guys should just release another stable version. Luckily upgrading typo is easy.

  21. Ben Bleything said 8 days later:

    Kyle/Bastiaan- Any chance you could post or blog or somehow note what specific changes you made? That’d make it a lot easier for other authors to go through and fix stuff.

    It’d also make it easier for me to fix the ones I want to use while maintaining my policy of maximal laziness ;)

    If you don’t, I will. :D

  22. Kyle said 8 days later:

    Wow, so in an effort to do that Ben, I found a major problem.

    The source downloaded from: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/7006/typo-2.6.0.zip is NOT the same source as http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/browser/tags/release_2_6_0/

    Looks like the Typo admins got a bit mixed up somewhere. Thus the major confusion – I believe.

    For reference Ben, the major change is to change all instances of body_html to the helpers. For example, change:

    <= article.body_html %> to <= article_html(article %>

    If you look through the source here: http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/browser/tags/release_2_6_0/app/views/articles/ you’ll see the changes that need to be done to _article.rhtml, _comment.rhtml, _trackback.rhtml, comment_preview.rhtml, read.rhtml, and view_page.rhtml

  23. Marco said 8 days later:

    Still no results eh? :(

    Anyway: For those who continue theme development any anyone else interested, I wrote an article on Typo theming on my blog.

    read it here

  24. topfunky said 8 days later:

    Results by midnight PST tonight, rain or shine.

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