Themes

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 17 May 2015 05:44 GMT-0000

Hi,

I don't think WordPress themes will be included in the Tiki package necessarily, unless there's some overriding reason to do it; probably more likely the method to add them after installation will be documented. Part of the reason is the license issue, but also there's no reason to bulk up the Tiki package, which is already pretty huge, if it's fairly straightforward to install new themes after installation, which would also maximize the themes to choose from.

There'll be some testing soon on adapting a WordPress and probably other CMS application themes to Tiki, based on having Bootstrap in common, and it can be seen if there's some need for a special layout template file, for example, to help enable the new theme.

Something else to keep in mind is that WordPress themes have deep hooks into the WP functionality, often including special widgets, image sliders, scripts, functional modules or plugins and so on (with the pluses and minuses that come with that approach), whereas Tiki's themes are limited by design to be visual skins only. (Any functional code would be a separate package and would probably work with other themes as well.) So adapting a WordPress theme for Tiki would probably only provide the visual appearance unless the adaptor wants to go further to provide work-alike modules, etc. An inbetween point would be to provide the theme files and also documentation on how to configure Tiki to work best with the theme. This may be done in the future with Tiki profiles or the new feature, add-ons.

-- Gary