Had a coffee (er, late-night chamomile tea) with Alister Cameron over the long weekend here in Melbourne.
He’s working on a great tool code-named “Vanilla” - something that can best be described as a theme engine for Wordpress.
It allows the creation of Wordpress themes with incredible levels of customisation - without needing to be a PHP programmer.
He gave me a sneak peek behind the scenes. I don’t want to give away too much (some of these developments are still “top secret”), so here’s a taste:

Even though these features are still-to-be-announced, already it’s so simple yet powerful that some people in the Wordpress theme community are talking it up as the next evolution of WordPress themes:
…Vanilla is going in the direction of becoming a new standard [for Wordpress Themes]…
If you’re a graphic designer or theme designer for Wordpress themes, I highly recommend you get onto his Limited Alpha release while he’s still accepting new applicants:
http://www.alistercameron.com/2008/02/20/vanilla-theme-alpha-testers-call/
Brent
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1 Gavin Allinson // Mar 14, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Thanks for the tip off Brent, it seems like it could be very interesting.
I recently purchased some themes but they only went part of the way there, i still had to get my guys to do a lot of customisation.
Gavin
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