The issue of readily available themes

[tkimnguyen]

It would depend on the theme... yes, that was part of the idea

Ideas for Google Summer Of Code 2017

Some ideas: improvements in how Plone shows available themes from a central theme repository (e.g. on plone.org) in a site and lets an admin install themes directly from that gallery Summary: out of the box Plone should make it easy for an admin to install new themes Implementation: the theming control panel should be enhanced to include a gallery of compatible Plone themes retrieved from a central theme gallery possibly on Plone.org. Each theme in the gallery should be displayed using a previ…

@tkimnguyen

a theme converter, that can take HTML/CSS themes built for (say) WordPress and turn them into Diazo Plone themes

Summary: Plone's Diazo theming engine makes it much easier to apply pre-built themes (Wordpress, Themeforest) but it still requires manual labour. A conversion tool that can map common Plone content elements into Wordpress or Themeforest themes would make it even easier.

Implementation: Select a set of Wordpress or Themeforest themes with commonalities, and write Python software that generates rules.xml to map Plone content into those common theme elements. The input would be the Wordpress or Themeforest theme files (possibly in zip form), and the output would be a Plone Diazo ZIP file. An intermediate component may be needed to assist in mapping content to theme elements, so at least some kind of user interaction, if not full blown GUI, might be needed.

Skills: Python, XSLT, HTML, CSS

Mentors:

Aims: an installable (via pip or buildout) theme mapping tool