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Blogzilla
"Blogzilla" is Mozilla's universal blog theme available to all official Mozilla blogs. It will launch in Q1 2012 (March).
Goals:
- Create consistent branding across the Mozilla blog universe to better help our users, journalists, and community.
- Reduce the need for secreview by creating a pre-approved blogging package
- Reduce the need for maintaining multiple themes & designs, replacing it with just a single theme)
- Ensure all our blogs are responsive out of the box
- Ensure all our blogs are using standard social buttons Bug 701759
Blogs Getting the Upgrade in Q1 2012
- Mozilla Blog - Bug 733154
- Privacy - Bug 733159
- Add-ons - Bug 733161
- Security - Bug 733157
- Identity - Bug 702460
- Channels - Bug 733159
- Metrics - Bug 733166
- Beyond the Code (Tristan's blog) - Bug 733164
- Places Bug 726076
- Market Insights (new!) Bug 733177
- Apps (new!) Bug 733170
- l10n (new!) Bug 733167
Pending:
- UX (new!) Bug 702464
- Gary's blog
- User Research
- UX
Plugins Included in the Upgrade
- Sitepress Multilingual CMS - (this is the main plugin) link
- WPML Translation Management - link
- WPML String Translation - link
- WPML Media - link
- FeedWordPress to syndicate content from other Mozilla blogs via RSS - link
- CMS Tree Page View, which just provides a nice UI for managing Pages - link
Development & Design Roadmap
Q1, 2012
- Launching theme v1.
Q2, 2012
- Localization
- Featured Post
- Child theme (1 design for magazine-like entry point for PR blog.mozilla.com)
- Theme for community sites
Q3, 2012
- coming soon
Q4, 2012
- coming soon
Using Blogzilla
- Activating the theme
- Title and tagline (leave tagline blank to remove it from the header)
- Adding/changing a custom header image
- Header image specs (size, transparency)
- Choosing a color scheme
- Showing/Hiding authors
- Filling out your author profile
- Adding/changing a navigation menu
- Sidebar widgets (leave the secondary sidebar blank to remove it)
- Making a child theme
- Localizing the theme (different from translating content... l10n at the theme level handles UI strings like comment form labels, "Posted by", etc)
Future Features (add your requests!)
- Featured posts
- More color schemes
- Alternative layouts (left sidebars, single column, etc)
- Custom favicon?
- Tumblr-like post types? (photo, quote, link)