Wordpress Themes For Video are just that - themes designed with video and videoblogging in mind. Over the last three years I’ve worked on a number of projects that have tried to make getting video on a blog easy (Freevlog, Secrets of Videoblogging, NODE101, Vloggercon). Last year, feeling that videoblogging was sufficiently easy, we started a new project, Show In A Box, to kind of up the ante. Since many of us were already using and extending Wordpress, we decided to turn it into the ultimate videoblogging platform.
My main focus for Show In A Box has been creating themes. Our plan for themes has gone through a few changes but is now, I believe, on the right track. The idea is that all of the components of Show In A Box should be mix-and-match; use what you want, leave the rest alone. There is no particular set of features that makes a theme a “Show In A Box theme” but some of the things those of us making them are keeping in mind are:
- Designed for video
- Throughly commented CSS to make customization easier
- Built in support for Show In A Box plugins
We’re also interested in creating themes that break out of the typical blog format. Hopefully we’ll be seeing some pretty interesting things soon.
- Verdi