About

This is a clone of the Octopress static site generator including a script functionality, which maintainers can use to publish Theme-Space theme previews. A short summary article about the Theme-Space concept can be seen over at Chymeric Tutorials.

Currently Included Themes

• Whitespace (Preview)
• Koenigspress (Preview)

Usage

Theme maintainers can publish an up-to-date standard-content preview of their theme by simply running the following from within a local clone of our repository:

git clean -f -d
./script/setup <theme-author-account> <theme-name>
rake install[<theme-name>]
rake gen_deploy

####It is important to note that:

• This currently only works with themes hosted on GitHub.
• To publish a preview, the theme in question needs first be cloned on Themespace as themespace/<theme-name>.
• To publish to Themespace (the rake gen_deploy part) you need to have push access to our theme clone.

We are happy to assist maintainers with the latter two points, and we liberally accord push access to theme authors.

Script Summary

When creating a new theme preview - by running script/setup <theme-author-account> <theme-name> - the following files are modified:

• Rakefile:

  public_dir: public/<theme-name>
  deploy_branch: gh-pages
  deploy_default: push
  deploy_dir: _deploy_<theme-name>
  

• config.rb:

  http_path: /<theme-name>/
  http_images_path: /<theme-name>/images
  http_fonts_path: /<theme-name>/fonts
  css_dir: public/<theme-name>/stylesheets
  

• _config.yml:

  destination: public/<theme-name>
  subscribe_rss: /<theme-name>/atom.xml
  root: /<theme-name>
  url: http://themespace.github.io/<theme-name>
  author: Themespace
  github_user: themespace
  

Previews are deployed to the gh-pages branches of our respective theme repository clones (e.g. github.com/themespace/<theme-name>).

Licenses

• Octopress
• Whitespace
• Koenigspress