Here's another one of those "too cool for words" things that I get so excited about that I tell everyone before it's done. Tired of those yet? Good...

Here's a screencam of what my prototype WordPress theme (Artychoke) can do. I think it pretty much speaks for itself:

Yes, it's using AJAX. Yes, it could provide a complete set of fields there. Yes, it works in both IE and Firefox - I haven't checked yet, but it should degrade gracefully in other browsers. Yes, it does this without adding plugins to the theme, although maybe someone should write a plugin that does this to any theme? That would be "supersweet", as they say.

Among the other crazy things that this theme does:

  • Build your title nav bar automatically from the root-level WordPress static pages.
  • Use sIFR for slick fontified titles. (Once again, no plugin required - it just works.)
  • Planned: Autocomplete for search form.
  • Planned: A crafty new method of getting rid of those hideous "archives" links once and for all.

All that and it doesn't look too hideous. Hey, I could never draw well, so I have to compensate somehow, right?

Comments

Comment by Owen on .
Owen
As soon as the difficult stuff is done, I'll release the theme. The difficult stuff is obviously not the post editing. "Vaporware" may be the right word. But the proof of concept is there. If nothing else, I might eventually be able to pack this funcitonality into a plugin. What else might be cool is a pop-out form for writing new posts. That would be so much easier than bopping over to the Admin page every time. (/me prepares himself for the barrage of "Use Ecto"-like responses to this comment.) I also need a good photo of an artichoke. Hmm...