The Playground

For the last 4 days I've been trying my hand at converting a theme designed for Wordpress (a php-based blogging platform) to be used in Movable Type. It's been a really frustrating 4 days to say the least. The theme is truly beautiful and fully worth the effort, though it is limited from expansion due to the design itself. It would make a lovely theme for a personal blog. I created a test blog to view the modifications and to make sure it all went together properly, and I'm happy with the result.

I had to do some heavy modifications on some of the MT templates and minor modification on the theme, most notably, the date tag. For some unknown reason I couldn't get this to display fully, so I've made another little post-it note that I think looks better anyway. I've packaged it all up into a plugin that I hope can be made available to the wider MT community. I'm waiting on permission from the designer, Evan Eckard, and Smashing Magazine to allow me to do this. For any Wordpress users, the theme is available for free.

Creating a plugin for the template set was made very easy after looking at how Jim Ramsey did the same thing for his Mid-Century Template Set. I hope to be able to make it available once permissions are in place.

Update:Notepad Chaos has all the permissions and is now available for download. I've tested it as a new install, and also as an template upgrade on an existing blog on MT4.21 Pro. Let me know in the comments if you have any problems installing it.