98535 WORDPRESS Theme creation

In Progress Posted Nov 6, 2006 Paid on delivery
In Progress Paid on delivery

Overview. Online server based application to.

1) create WORDPRESS themes, with their own configuration facilities, with option to store online and/or download/zip theme directory and it's contents. Offer option to select a saved theme, and export it via FTP to another site. Create theme editor functionality.

2) ability to browse local system, select and load an existing themes and files from specified local folder/directory and individual files, including images and media files. Must be PC/Apple mac friendly and other less common system like and amend.

Preferred to be developed in RUBY/related.

Scope of THEME creation and editing functionality required.

a) Create new WORDPRESS from scratch, or select from several generic templates, or simply load an existing theme as a template to edit and create a new theme.

b) Options to create 1-4 column themes i.e master theme for site. Option to specify 'homepage' and define a default page naming permalink structure. e.g /%postname%.htm

c) Ability to create individual page template to be used when wrting posts/pages, which may have different outlines e.g two columns instead of three, or no columns, simply single pages, with or without header and sidebars and footers, or page specific headers/footer/sidebar.

Can be done by using page types, header types, footer types and so on.

d) ability to drag and drop using definable 'blocks' - eg header blocks, sidebar 1, 2, 3 blocks, footer blocks, content blocks for standard Wordpress forms , user definable content blocks (to handle Google Adsense and other third party advertising links - like Yahoo, Amazon) - for such blocks, be able to define variable to reference centrally set values for Googles adsense code/channels).

This would require that to create them there needs to be a theme configuration facility when running the site with the theme, in order to specific the variables defined.

e) have concept of 'multi layer' within pages pages in order to build a theme/page them.

ie. back ground layer = layer 1, them add main page block, then add header, footer, side bar block (s) as layer 2, ability to have 'floating' blocks (to accomodate 'hover ads' style content where required. Define display layer (front, back, between layers one and two, for example)

f) Must be WORDPRESS 2 onwards compatible. features crated for the theme must 'die gracefully' and simply not be used/displayed if the site is switched to another wordpress theme.

g) If necessary, use of another database (like MySQL, as supported by Wordpress) may be used. (The process of creating the database and must be straight forward -needs to be discussed in detail).

h) The split between how much of this functionality is crated during the initial theme creation, and how much via the generated theme editor, to support the new 'classes' of entities can be agreed during the design phase.

i) All components (i.e 'blocks' must have definable size, colour, borders and position). Ability to define default fonts and colours for content within the blocks.

Ability to include images/media, and specify location, size within the blocks. such functionality to be used for defining header and logo, and footers for 'static, site wide and page specific display.

j) Ability to assign where all standard typically used wordpress get displayed within the blocks with the pages. i.e similar to the sidebar widgets plugin functionality in order to control when and where calendar, recent posts/articles, meta, rss functions are displayed.

k) Within the content posting function, perhaps via a plugin to be contained within this theme, a comprehensive WYSIWYG editor to be available, to provide online editiing, to cope with size, colour, location of text, interaction with a media library (location to be defiable) to include media content, images specifically, position and resize images easily. It would help to be about to define and select from a number 'content box/blck types.

This will be the first phase of a comprehensive effort to produce the best user definable wordpress theme creation facility available.

When bidding, please indicate how much of this functionality to can provide, and if necessary break the bid down according to the key functionality being provided.

If certain functionality is not considered possible due to limitations of Wordpress, this is accepted.

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