About

17 Aug 2009 at 01:32

Elastic is a visual theme editor and theme engine for WordPress and a new approach to WordPress themes. We think that theme options aren’t enough—themes should be easy for anyone to edit. We believe that user-friendly theme editing can produce developer-friendly themes, all for the price of free.

Elastic was originally a project in the Google Summer of Code in 2009, but continued to grow after the summer ended. There are several main working parts behind Elastic: a visual theme editor, a theme engine, and a set of protocols that link the two. If you’d like to learn more about Elastic, you should check out the WordCamp slides and demos and the PHP documentation (to be updated soon), or even better—you should contact us!

Developers

Daryl Koopersmith is a junior studying computer science at Washington University in St Louis, currently visiting the University of Edinburgh. He began work on Elastic with WordPress during the Google Summer of Code 2009, and has since developed the habit of overanalyzing WordPress themes and dreaming of beautiful interfaces.

He would love Elastic to become the de facto theme editor for WordPress, but can’t do it alone. He’s a student, you know. Basically—you should contribute!

15 Comments

by Muhammad Adnan

27 Mar 2010 at 12:37

Daryl ,

I am also a student and I want to take part with you to become the elastic more forward that now.

by Jens Kelch

08 Apr 2010 at 04:17

WOW! This looks so easy, i definitly try this out. Thanks

by Patrick Denny

08 Apr 2010 at 08:08

I started wire framing an near-exact (though simpler) duplicate of this product two weeks ago. This saves me the trouble of building it

Thank You.

by Mark Beck

09 Apr 2010 at 01:05

This looks truly interesting! I’d love to be notified of updates to Elastic. Thanks!

by Michael Chevalier

11 Apr 2010 at 10:50

Just what I need as a newbie. I’m at the planning stage for my Word Press project. Elastic theme should save me much time, research and frustration. I can’t wait to get started!

by Chris Kemp

14 Apr 2010 at 08:42

Discovered this today. What an awesome project. As a designer I think I like this much better than starting from either 1) total scratch (with my own html/css and trying to create semantics as I go) or 2) over-wrought theme frameworks with way more than I might need.

Thanks for the hard work!

by Rex

17 Apr 2010 at 00:38

Love the open source theme project you are doing! Keep it up.

by john everett

18 Apr 2010 at 01:18

Well, I installed this on my local server. It doesn’t seem to do anything at all. What am I missing?

by Daryl Koopersmith

18 Apr 2010 at 11:30
Reply

Elastic should be installed in the ‘plugins’ folder, and when activated, have a link appear in the “Appearance” section of the admin panel.

If you’ve gotten that far and are still having issues, there seems to be a bug in the current version where some people are having trouble saving. Where are you having trouble?

by Claudio Rimann

18 Apr 2010 at 17:25

wow – looks amazing! can’t wait to try this out myself!

by Brandon

21 Apr 2010 at 20:23

Does this have drag and drop image placement? THAT would truly be something. I look forward to the development of this project.

by Laurentiu Danu

27 Apr 2010 at 11:00

There is a bug: in localhost it doesn`t save the theme.
I`m using WP 2.9.2

by Ally

29 Apr 2010 at 15:16

I LOVE your project! It’s much needed and I applaud your brilliant work. I’m not a developer and can’t help, but so very curious as to a projected date Elastic will be available. Any projections?