Wordpress Development Theme

[curtismchale]

I've been working on a WP development theme for a while now. This is a bit of a prerelease for some feedback. It's based of Starkers by Elliot Jay stocks but adds a bunch of stuff I always do like jQuery, client side comment validation....

Love feedback on it before the official release (so I can fix any issues).

http://github.com/curtismchale/Comienzo

If you like it and want to use it feel free. I`d love a blog post link or something but it`s not required. Free to use for personal and commercial project.

[Ryan]

Do you have a demo somewhere?

[curtismchale]

yeah you can see it at http://comienzo.curtisdev.ca not really much to look at. Really it looks like Starkers from but includes a bunch of things that I always added as a dev like jQuery, client side comment validation...

[Ryan]

This sort of thing is never a good sign:

	<!--[if IE 6]>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="http://comienzo.curtisdev.ca/wp-content/themes/Comienzo/assets/css/ie6-styles.css" />
	<![endif]--> 
	
	<!--[if IE 7]>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="http://comienzo.curtisdev.ca/wp-content/themes/Comienzo/assets/css/ie7-styles.css" />
	<![endif]--> 
	
	<!--[if IE 8]>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="http://comienzo.curtisdev.ca/wp-content/themes/Comienzo/assets/css/ie8-styles.css" />
	<![endif]-->

The most you should ever need is an IE6 conditional comment and even then they're only needed in rare circumstances for things which simply aren't possible with IE6.

[curtismchale]

Ha true and I normally end up removing the IE 8 one and typically end up with one line in the IE7 if anything. I just remove them at the end. I suppose I could go the other way and add them if needed. Just depends on how you think about it.

Any other comments?

[bronson.quick]

Yeah IE can sometimes be a little tricky. I always use progressive enhancement and can usually get away with only one conditional stylesheet for IE. Sometimes in the past due to time constraints I have had to pop in this http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ to quickly fix common IE errors. I try to avoid using that though but it's saved me a couple of times in the past with tight deadlines.