Ext JS and Wordpress

1.0 Release

The first release of Ext JS WordPress Theme is ready. Please go to Download Page, get the theme, try it by yourself and let me know how I can improve it. Check all the features and inform me about its bugs. Al thought I have try my best the software should be treated as an alpha release thus try to be forgiving.

The major feature of Ext JS WordPress Theme are:

Makes use of beautiful ExtJS styles;
Makes use of real application ExtJS layout;
Uses Ajax to load Entries;
Sidebar uses famous Jozef Sakalos Accordion;
Calendar Widget is ajaxified and ExtJS skinned;
Quick Search displays search results during typing;
Comments are posted via Ajax; without refreshing the content of the entry;
One can open full page recent comments preview;
Pages menu make use of ExtJS hierarchical menu;
Theme is widgets and tags aware;

Ext JS Theme Revealed

I have started to work on Ext JS base WordPress theme to check if it is possible. During few hours I have spend on it I could say: It is doable (somehow), although WordPress is not ready for such extensions yet. Simply speaking: the distinction between logic and presentation is not clear enough.

I am sharing with the community some of my thoughts from the development period. It is because I have realized (it was not very difficult) that there should be a better solution for most of the problems I have solved. Hereby I am asking community for help to make this stuff better. Please check what I have done to make Ext JS theme work and how, and let me know how to improve it.

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ExtJS WordPress Theme

Note: This is about previous version of ExtJS WordPress Theme. The project is based on ExtJS 1.1.1 and will not be continue. But you can still download it from Downloads page.

I can imagine that people use the theme on their personal blogs, but to be honest the theme forces blog-viewers to concentrate on the content instead of personal expression, thus I recommend it for organizations that uses WordPress for exchanging knowledge.The Ext JS library gives web applications really good look&feel and – somehow – it “releases” people from thinking about the look&feel; allows people to read the content in peace. The phrase that describes Ext JS WordPress Theme the best is of course: “proof of concept”. WordPress, for sure, is not a good tool for making it “Ext JS-ified”. Anyway, it have been worth to try. There are two main goals which Ext JS WordPress Theme wants to achieve. First and foremost is to take advantage of all the stuff that gives us Ext JS library: layouts, menus, ajax, animations etc. The second goal is to look really good. Below, I am presenting 10 main features of the theme.

Makes use of beautiful ExtJS styles;

Makes use of real application ExtJS layout;

Uses Ajax to load Entries;

Sidebar uses famous Jozef Sakalos Accordion;

Calendar Widget is ajaxified and ExtJS skinned;

Quick Search displays search results during typing;

Comments are posted via Ajax; without refreshing the content of the entry;

One can open full page recent comments preview;

Pages menu make use of ExtJS hierarchical menu;

Theme is widgets and tags aware;

The project

I decided to create the site as an example of my little project called “Ext JS WordPress Theme”. The plan is to combine together two most interesting these days (IMHO) open source projects.

The plan in simple: I want to spend some time to prove myself that I am able to create WordPress theme using brilliant ExtJS library. Ext has everything I need: perfect layout tools, fancy widgets and beautiful styles. Here is what I want to achive:

The theme should change default WordPress behavior; once loaded WordPress should persists; in short: Ajax entry load;
It should change WordPress look&fell into something that looks like an web application;
It should not change WordPress ability to use plug ins; plug ins should work.

Fake Post

This is a fake post made to demonstrate Recent Comments plugin. My first one

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