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title: "sandbox is nifty"
date: 2006-08-21T12:41:28-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/08/21/sandbox-is-nifty/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides, wordpress, metablogging, sandbox, themes, skins]
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# sandbox is nifty

I'm really digging the [Sandbox][] theme for WordPress so far.  I've not really done much yet - but between [Sandbox][] and the new [WordPress Widgets][], all my customizations for this blog have been done in CSS and drag-n-drop in the widget management screen.  [Sandbox][] has an enormously rich set of classes dropped into every major element of the page, even down to date/time information on posts and category-based classes.  I could even drop in some seasonal themes to styles posts for holidays and whatnot.  Pumpkins for October, and presents for December!

I *did* need to add one line of PHP to a [Sandbox][] template, and that was a CSS include to my own tack-on CSS full of tweaks to the Spartan skin.  If anything, that's my only feature request so far:  Allow skin selection, and then allow the user to specify an additional stylesheet to further tailor that skin.  The less I need to edit in files installed from third parties, the less I need to maintain when versions get updated.

I'm also running into a few minor CSS oddities when I view my tweaks in MSIE on Windows.  This annoys me, but I only half care to fix them.

[sandbox]: http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/
[wordpress widgets]: http://automattic.com/code/widgets/

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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221089256" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-08-21T18:17:39">2006-08-21T18:17:39</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Hey,
Looks like your markup isn't getting processed in your feed.  This post looked like this in bloglines:</p>

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I’m really digging the [Sandbox][] theme for WordPress so far. I’ve not really done much yet - but between [Sandbox][] and the new [WordPress Widgets][].....
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<p>Also,the link to your "All Entries" feed is busted in the left hand nav on the archive pages.</p></div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221089258" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-08-21T20:20:26">2006-08-21T20:20:26</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>If I'm lucky, I just fixed my Markdown problem by adding this line:
    <code>add_filter('the_content_rss', 'Markdown', 6);</code>
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<p>If I'm not lucky, I just broke everything.</p></div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221089260" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-08-21T20:35:26">2006-08-21T20:35:26</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Yep, feed looks good now.</p>

<p>All the feed links are missing "http" though.</p></div>
            
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