New massive post on the blog: Wordpress Sandbox and Blueprint
I have been very excited by the seamless integration of three of my favorite development tools: Wordpress, Sandbox and Blueprint CSS. I know there’s a lot of interest these days in Wordpress “frameworks” for child theme development and projects like Thematic and others are certainly exciting. For me though there is a definite cool factor in a rapid development and deployment stack like WSB.
Blueprint is the piece of this puzzle that is newest to me but that I’m almost most excited about. I have been using Wordpress and Sandbox for theme development for a few years and have run up against all the common issues: lack of rapid complex layouts, lack of baseline typography, lack of baseline forms styling, and of course IE compatibility. What Blueprint provides is a baseline, common hooks, class generating plugins, and browser compatibility hacks to give you a consistent starting point for your design project. Getting it to integrate with Wordpress and Sandbox is a must.
What we’ll set up here is a solid baseline for theme design: a complete, non-invasive integration of all three projects. Once set up, redeploying this stack for other projects and development environments on your server is very quick and easy. Blueprint provides nice tools for customizing your different installations from an organized central management script.
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