The main thing I've found difficult to work with in WordPress is the commenting area. The code in there seems to get very convoluted and I often struggle to figure out what is going on.


I've downloaded your latest alpha ... http://code.google.com/p/vanilla-theme/downloads/list

I'd love for you to explain the purpose of it as I'm totally baffled. It looks like a lot like the code gobbledy goop that is in Carrington. I don't see how these themes make things easier, to my eye they look the most complicated, difficult themes to work with. Or am I missing something major here?

I'm guessing you guys are trying to do something here which I don't understand at all. I've asked quite a few people what the purpose of this method of developing themes is, but no one has been able to tell me and I am EXTREMELY keen to hear what is directly from you. I spent quite a bit of time plowing through the Carrington themes code and I couldn't figure out why it has been developed the way it is. I also did lots of Google searching trying to find an answer, but the only information I could find gave the same generic explanations, like "theme revolution" or "will make themes so much easier to create" etc. etc. without actually explaining anything about how they work or how they intend to improve WP theming.

I am truly baffled and hoping you can enlighten me :)




BTW, the HTML in your alpha release was really confusing, some the tags seem to have carriage returns in the middle of them! When I first saw it, I thought something was wrong with it and that chunks of each tag were missing. So I tried it in another browser and saw exactly the same problem. Is this intentional? I find it near on impossible to see what is going on with the code like that.

You also have the following code in your header. Will this be in the final release? I hate seeing ugly hacks like that in themes and generally don't touch anything that uses them.

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