2011 WordHack UK
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Introduction
This page is for the use for adding proposed projects and names of those wishing to take part in WordHack UK 2011
All projects must be GPLv2 complient.
WordHack on Twitter
For guidance see last year's WordHack page
List of those wishing to hack
Project Proposals
Idea 1: WordPress Zen Garden
The hack would consist of taking a fairly standard WordPress install, using twenty ten or maybe wonderflux, and then use nothing but CSS to create beautiful sites, in much the same way as CSS Zen Garden. We could possibly set up a page in advance using some similar content to Zen Garden, and then people work on the CSS that comes with WordPress.
The objective is to demonstrate that WordPress sites do not have to look 'WordPressy' and can look as stunning as any other site.
Originator: Rachel McCollin
Idea 2: Advanced Theme Options API plugin
The hack would consist of cleanly and efficiently combining the WordPress theme options and settings API to make adding custom options to any theme (ie a simple child theme) easy. It would contain various form building functions that interact with core WordPress functionality as much as possible (2011 shows good examples of some of this). It would be executed with a function in the child themes function.php with parameters allowing custom form building functionality (ie role/capability access, form type, default ect). Future development could create an admin interface to manage the options.
This is beyond the scope of the conference to complete, but could form part of an ongoing collaboration between a number of developers to be hosted up on the WordPress plugin repo as open source, GPL code. It could also be combined and developed further into the Wonderflux Theme Framework and once developed and tested to a good level be submitted to the WordPress core as a patch.
Originator: Jonny Allbut
