THX38 Update

We’ve been busy building and improving the plugin. We are approaching the point of a full feature prototype, which will allow us to start testing smaller incremental changes.

I committed the first pass at the browse themes screen based on the mockups we’ve discussed before:

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By the way, we are running a bit short on development resources, so if you are proficient in PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. and/or JS and want to contribute to this project, please, either chime in to one of our weekly chats or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me directly. We are using Backbone to build all the theme views. We started a short document with the current tasks.

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We have two tasks going on: make theme switching work with the current prototype, and finish implementing theme fetching to the install-themes screen.

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