Comments on: Theming for Other Platforms (Besides WordPress)

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:09:39 +0000

Can you let me know some examples of your ported Habari themes? I’d love to see them!

By: manda.moore

manda.moore — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:48:48 +0000

I’ve actually ported a few wordpress themes over to Habari for use, and customized a few Habari ones as well. It’s super easy to create/modify themes for Habari. The theme collection in general has been growing more lately with new additions.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:04:43 +0000

I use both Drupal and WordPress. I would really like to see more themes ported to Drupal.

By: Leland

Leland — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:41:34 +0000

@Anto: I’m a little undecided at the moment. That’s part of the reason I made this post. Just wanted to gauge interest to see if people were interested in themes for something other than WordPress for a change. It seems most are.

@Aguair: While I’ll agree it’s the most popular, I haven’t given the other alternatives a fair chance to comment on if it’s the “best” or not. Drupal is popular too, but like Dan Butcher said above – there aren’t that many good Drupal themes available.

@Owen: Thanks for reminding us of that. That is the major reason why WordPress got so popular in the first place.

By: Owen

Owen — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:17:44 +0000

Anyone familiar with the evolution of WordPress knows that the reason it became dominant had nothing to do with out-performing its rivals. It was almost entirely due to Six Apart changing their license and everyone who was in blogging suddenly looking for a non-commercial blog product.

The only software worth mentioning at the time was WordPress, and it didn’t even have but the most rudimentary of theme and plugin capabilities at the time.

I’m not saying WordPress is not capable software. I will say that I believe it’s the market leader for a reason other than offering the best blogging solution. If everyone who thinks it’s “best” would take off the blinders and try the other software out there, I think they’d see there is real competition going on at a feature and capability level that perhaps they didn’t expect.

And yes, Drupal is popular. Drupalcon 08 in Boston (at which I was present) drew over 800 attendees. That’s more than I’ve ever seen or heard of at a WordPress conference.

By: Aguair

Aguair — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:54:34 +0000

I also think that WordPress is the best blogging system. Even if it is the mosy popular, I think it is for a reason.

And hey, I wouldn’t mind designing a Habari, Chryp or Drupal theme

Also, Drupal is pretty popular, isn’t it?

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:09:02 +0000

WordPress FTW.

But i wouldnt mind designing some Drupal or Harbari themes hehe

Whats you take on it, are you more for it or not leland ?

By: Leland

Leland — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:19:23 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone. The reason why I made this post is because I wanted to gauge interest in themes for other software. I know WordPress is the reigning champ for blogging, but what about those other lesser-known systems that don’t have enough good themes available?

@Owen: I actually read that article. Habari just needs more exposure, among themers in particular.

@Mayooresan: You’re right, for just a simple blog – Drupal probably is too bloated. Something like WordPress, Habari, or Chyrp may be a better choice.

@Aguair: Yes, it may be the king/queen for now, but for how long will it last?

@Clarky: WordPress is very popular, arguably the most popular software (.org) and hosting service (.com) for blogs out there.

@Dan Butcher: When I looked into Drupal theming I did notice a number of stylesheets attached to each theme. Thanks for your feedback.

By: dan butcher

dan butcher — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:17:49 +0000

I’ve been using Drupal for several years, and it’s a great platform for sites that need more interaction than just comments on a blog post. I use it for teaching. However, it’s not easy to theme, in my experience. There are two many css files attached to a even a simple site, because some css is built into the core. Trying to sort out what’s making a particular element style a certain way can be frustrating.

There are not a lot of really attractive Drupal themes that I have seen, at least not themes that are css driven rather than using tables for positioning.

Short answer: yes, I would love to see some of your themes ported for use with Drupal.

By: Clarky

Clarky — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:31:49 +0000

No,I have never used one of these.Up to now I have used only wordpress and Blogger,I have heard about Z-blog,movabletype before but I have never used them. WordPress is really very popular in world,right?