Fiddling With Open Source Software for Libraries Theme

oss4lib interior page

I generally liked CommentPress, but when the Institute for the Future of the Book website went down recently, it started throwing errors in the dashboard. So I decided to re-do the Open Source Software For Libraries website using Derek Powazek’s DePo Masthead.

I think it’s a beautifully readable theme, and I only had to make a few modifications. I’ve ostensibly lost CommentPress’ paragraph-level commenting features, but I discovered those may have been broken all along (that was what started me thinking about replacing the theme). I still have lots of work to do on the site, like inserting the footnotes, illustrations, and the final chapter (Ryan Eby’s guide to open source software for the server-side of your library).

4 Comments to “Fiddling With Open Source Software for Libraries Theme”

  1. It’s unclear how to download DePo Masthead. How did you get it?

  2. It has been created for wordpress.com and not for wordpress.org. This on behalf of the founder of WP

  3. It’s an interesting theme, it took some digging, but I found that they did make it available via Subversion checkout. In Linux, the SVN command to get it is:

    svn checkout http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/depo-masthead/

    Then you can zip it:

    zip -r depo-masthead.zip depo-masthead

    And finally upload it to your site and preview/activate it.

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