June Stats

[ninetydegrees]

☆ Layouts: progress! 36 layouts have been submitted. 23 are live, 4 have been claimed (and one should go live soon-ish), 9 are unclaimed.
☆ Themes: 288 themes have been submitted. 211 are live, 19 have been claimed, 3 should become live soon and 55 are unclaimed, which means only 19% of all submitted themes are unclaimed. This is the lowest percentage we've ever gotten so far. How wonderful is that!
☆ Styles which could really use a few more themes are ColorSide, Drifting, Nouveau Oleanders, Skittlish Dreams and Tabula Rasa, and even Bases, Boxes and Borders and Modish.

Special thanks to busaikko and egedraven for your submissions for Brittle and Negatives (now up to 11 and 16 themes respectively) and to dancing_serpent, edgeraven, and liv for enthusiastically delving into the scary world of style dev and making their first patches. You're amazing.

Comments

[sarken]

Question! Color themes are limited to what we can do with the "customize your theme" options, right?

[ninetydegrees]

Yes and no. Extra CSS is allowed but colors should always be customizable via the Customize interface: either you use existing properties but apply them to another element or you create new properties to fine-tune coloring. In all cases, users can submit more complexed themes and they can be converted.

[sarken]

I want to make sure I understand what you just said. If I did

set color_entry_title_background = "#ffffff";
set color_header_background = "#000000";

I could then apply the header color to alternate entry titles by doing

.entry-wrapper-even .entry .entry-title { background-color: $*color_header_background; }

in the CSS, because that would be customizable via the Customize interface?

[ninetydegrees]

Exactly. If someone suggests that this be made a separate color setting, we'll edit the code to create a new property. Otherwise, it's all good to use existing properties.

[sarken]

Oh, that's awesome! I'll definitely make another color theme or two, then, just so I can play with that. And then maybe I'll take a shot at patching a theme, because I was looking, and they seem pretty straight forward.