Future Directions

by Anne Bowtell — last modified Feb 04, 2009 02:37 AM
Contributors: Yuri Carrer
This reference manual outlines the current approach to Plone themes. But you may as well know now that there are other, perhaps simpler, approaches on the horizon.

Plone theming is getting a bit complicated. So the Plone community, in its inimitable and energetic way, is already exploring different solutions to the “theme problem”.

Things move fast. At the time of writing, some of the solutions listed below are probably not mature enough to use in earnest, particularly if you are just starting out. However, you might want to investigate them to see how they’re progressing:

Out of the Box Themes

A sprint and ongoing project to generate themes that will ship with out-of-the box Plone, and to brainstorm on other ways to improve the Plone theming story

Deliverance

Deliverance is a lightweight program that applies a theme to content according to a set of rules.