A couple of days ago I saw a tweet from Cody De Arkland showing his new tweaked VMware Clarity based theme on his website.
Staying up until 3am to get the brisket on, so what do I do? Work on tuning up https://t.co/YDiFkGIKLY with some better @VMwareClarity styling! Check out the differences below! Subtle changes but I think it's a lot better. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/6sYnuBahwI
— Cody De Arkland (@Codydearkland) June 17, 2018
Cody has gone down the route of using Hugo and AWS, which I respect, but just seems like too much work for me at the moment! I am familiar with WordPress, and Simon is barely computer literate at the best of times, so I can’t ask him to start writing in markdown. But I did want some of this Clarity goodness - so I set about learning how to create a WordPress theme, and how to integrate Clarity with this.
I was massively helped by the post Cody put up detailing how he went about incorporating Clarity into his code, and the Clarity docs themselves are nice and easy to understand, so I have fumbled my way though to where I am now. In the spirit of eating my own dogfood, I have switched DefinIT over to Clarity 0.1!
You can, if feeling brave, get my theme code from github here: https://github.com/sammcgeown/wordpress-clarity
What works:
Still to do:
It’s a 0.1 release people, it’s buggy - use at your own risk. If you do use it, please hit me up on twitter (@sammcgeown) and let me know how it’s going, any requests etc. And if you’re interested in contributing to the theme, send a pull request!
Any feedback or broken things on this site, please let me know via twitter again!