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it’s now possible to develop on EE and still stay sane.

But it requires heavy use of intoxicating beverages.

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

😉

Bjorn,

Thanks for the response. And congrats on your contract with woo! This is great news for the EE community, especially for new converts who want fresh install theme love…

I just sent you a PM about something related you may be interested in down the road.

Best,

Jeremy Lee James

And congrats on your contract with woo! This is great news for the EE community, especially for new converts who want fresh install theme love…

This is good news. I use WooThemes for quick development on client WordPress sites. They’re decent (there’s a growing, thriving cottage industry in WordPress themes). Looking forward to the EE versions.

This is an area where EE totally misses the boat. By simply defining a specific default EE setup configuration (weblog, template_group, templates, and an import/export button), EE could have a growing theme industry, too.

That would bring many more users into the EE community. Many of the better WordPress themes and frameworks (I use a bunch of them; Headway, Thesis, Frugal, Woo, and others) are priced at $87 (no collusion there, right?). EE is far easier to extend than WordPress for non-programmers. Such a default theme configuration would give non-programmer developers a good base to work in EE.

WordPress has a bunch of frameworks which make it rather easy to set up attractive, fluid, standards compliant sites. The framework sits on top of WordPress, and about all that’s required to customize a site is to muck with CSS and drag and drop Widgets into the framework/theme. It’s slick. 2009 has seen a dramatic increase in high quality themes, robust frameworks for WP to match the already superb Control Panel.

Come on, EE. Let’s go.

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For Rick Ellis: I swear that I have not been drinking prior to posting this.

Ah, but I drank prior to reading it!  😏