Funbox WordPress Theme

Funbox is about the grind…

The Funbox theme framework is a for theme development. It’s not a theme you just upload and activate. The core parent theme has no CSS.

Features:

• Funbox is not a WordPress Theme. It’s a framework, so hacking or child theme development is required.
• Actions and Filters are used as the foundation to make manipulation of the parent theme easier from a child theme.
• Simple core HTML structure focused on CSS class and id usage. The focus is more on CLASS elements to avoid the CSS cascade scope issues with ID declarations.
• Several utility functions for HTML creation. To make things like the included post meta creator that uses a theme based shortcode processor.
• Buddpress version. It’s currently only a merge of functionality from the bp-sn-parent, but that will change someday.
• If you’ve read it this far, this may be a theme framework for you.

The Funbox theme is not available yet. I haven’t decided whether it is worth the effort to release.

I started working on the Funbox Theme in December 2008. I downloaded every GPL theme framework I could find. I examined the work of the popular WordPress theme authors. I went through my employer’s and my client’s websites looking for the common customizations I needed to make.

It was a mess. Now it’s a framework of a mess.

The name is inspired by DIY skateboarders. It’s a Funbox. My brother was a skater-punk and I spent some time trying to kill myself on inline skates. This work was inspired by other theme authors like Justin Tadlock, Ian Stewart, Scott Wallick, and Brian Gardener to name a few.

Samples

• Funroe – My personal site uses a child theme using Funbox.