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!
Daryl ,
I am also a student and I want to take part with you to become the elastic more forward that now.
WOW! This looks so easy, i definitly try this out. Thanks
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.
This looks truly interesting! I’d love to be notified of updates to Elastic. Thanks!
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!
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!
Love the open source theme project you are doing! Keep it up.
Well, I installed this on my local server. It doesn’t seem to do anything at all. What am I missing?
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?
wow – looks amazing! can’t wait to try this out myself!
Does this have drag and drop image placement? THAT would truly be something. I look forward to the development of this project.
There is a bug: in localhost it doesn`t save the theme.
I`m using WP 2.9.2
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?
Hope it will handle better than headway…
I’m very curious how far will you go with the v.1.0
Best,
M.
Superb solution. I look forward to the next version. I will install it on my new blog and see if I can break it.
Fantastic work!
Will this beautiful project have updates?
love this concept, if this get’s really cooking n able to be flexible to updates, it will destroy the competition!
love the intent of the project. Getting ready to install, and this might be covered somewhere … have obvious question–
says not to use it on a live website… so dont use it? or use it, but if your website goes south, we warned you?
or does that mean we should do webserver/wp install on our local machine to create the themes, then upload the themes to a live site?
its like, heres a amazing new bike or car, but the brakes might not work.
thanks, looking forward to the new version. think it will be the future of wordpress.