requesting a wordpress.com theme to be added to wordpress.org

  • Paulsdudley

    (@paulsdudley)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    wordpress.com’s “Twenty Twelve” theme is prefect for my needs but it’s not one of wordpress.org’s theme options.

    Solution one:
    1. upload the theme myself…
    I found the it here with the help of another forum post

    https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/twentytwelve/

    but I can’t figure out what to do with it (mac user). Specifically, I don’t know how to generate a zip file to upload from those individual files at the link above.

    2. request the theme be added to the standard theme options. I’m guessing this may not be possible, though.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated…
    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    13 years, 8 months ago

    requesting a wordpress.com theme to be added to wordpress.org

    It will be release when it’s fully cooked, try to be patient.

    NOTE: The below steps will walk you through obtaining the current copy of WordPress.COM’s Twenty Twelve theme. This may break things on your installation and the theme that will be released on WordPress.ORG almost certainly will be updated. But if you want to play with an early copy, here you go.

    (Think the Wizard of Oz for a moment) Behold the Ways of SVN on a Mac!

    1 – Install Xcode from the App Store. I’m using Mountain Lion. It’s a 1.56 GB download.

    2 – Once installed, launch Xcode, agree to the license, install device support (yep, I’m doing this now too) and start using Xcode.

    3 – In Xcode -> Preferences go to Downloads and install Command Line Tools (another 115.1 MB)

    4 – Once that’s installed open the Terminal app and run this command.

    svn co https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/twentytwelve/ twentytwelve-wpcom

    5 – In the Terminal app then run the zip command.

    zip -r twentytwelve-wpcom.zip twentytwelve-wpcom/*

    This will create the zip file twentytwelve-wpcom.zip on your Mac in your home directory.

    6 – Visit http://your-wordpress-URL-here/wp-admin/theme-install.php?tab=upload and upload twentytwelve-wpcom.zip.

    7 – Activate and enjoy a not quite ready for WordPress.ORG Twenty Twelve theme.

    See above note one more time to be clear. 😉

    When the theme is officially released you can install that one too, just make sure to delete the SVN copy first.

    Amy Hendrix (sabreuse)

    (@sabreuse)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Or, y’know, wait a week or so. Twenty Twelve is currently in the review process, but they want to fix all the little fixes and tweaks that are still being found — for a normal theme it’s fine to release something that’s good enough and update it the next time they can get to it, but for the default theme they want to get everything as perfect as possible.

    (In fact, a big part of why it’s up on wp.com first is that it’s the world’s biggest beta test — anything that doesn’t work over there can be fixed pretty much instantly, but once it’s out in the wild and installed on all of our wp.org sites, they have to go through the whole review process again for each new release and then hope people actually update.)

    carreguin

    (@carreguin)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hey Guys,

    I’m trying to move the ever after theme over to wordpress.org. I’m completely new to this and am desperately trying to get our wedding site up. I have a mac and found a revision for ever after

    https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/ever-after/

    I also downloaded Xcode and the Command Line Tools. When I try and run the svn code though I get an error saying certificate is not issued by a trusted authority and it won’t let me accept a fingerprint. Any thoughts on this? Also – thoughts on the zip command I should enter after it’s resolved?

    Thanks so much!

    Chris

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Carreguin,

    If you’re not contributing to the original poster, you should create your own thread on the issue.

    carreguin

    (@carreguin)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Okay good call! I just started a separate Thread. If anybody wants to help me out the link is below. Thanks!

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ever-after-theme-from-wordpresscom?replies=1

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