The guys at Six Apart have released Sandbox for Movable Type. They've included the winning themes from the Sandbox Designs Competition. The first step is to install Sandbox as a plugin. After that, you'll be able to install Promised Land as a one click install1 . You can also manually install any Sandbox Child Theme, which means that the Bus Full of Hippies design should work on Movable Type as well. Hopefully, this will make designing for Movable Type easier for people used to WordPress. My previous attempts at using their templates failed, since there were no examples of using Pages as a navigation menu. I'm having a little trouble with my own test blog, and I'm completely new to movable type. At this time, I won't be able to provide support for the Movable Type version of the theme, but Movable Type does provide their own support, which is undoubtedly strong.
- My own attempt failed to copy down the background images, YMMV. (back ↩)
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Yay. Time to do another test install of MT, I think.
Yo! Thanks for your post. You can find “examples of using Pages as a navigation menu” in Sanxbox (I posted notes about customizing the navigation in the Sandbox for Movable Type FAQ) and the Professional template set also has a navigation with pages. Creating navigation in Movable Type has never been super simple, but I’m working on another plugin to assist with creating Navigation in Movable Type. Stay tuned to plugins.movabletype.org
BTW, the Bus Full of Hippies theme is beautiful! Is it really just a css theme based on the Sandbox html? If so I’d really like to include it with the available Sandbox themes for Movable Type. Is it GPL? The read me doesn’t say.
Per the theme download page, the joshuaink is absolutely not GPL. It is licensed CC-by-nc, as also indicated on John’s site. If I get MT running properly, I’ll work on packaging the design for MT as well.
Good to know “Bus Full of Hippies” is at least CC. The updates necessary to use it with Sandbox on Movable Type should be minimal since the html it’s applied to is nearly identical to that of Sandbox for WP
If you need any assistance getting MT running, please let me know.
Is there documentation somewhere of the exact differences between the MT version and the WP version, for designers?
Yup, in the release notes. But you shouldn’t need to edit the html at all. All the other Sandbox themes worked fine without edits to the css at all; though some were updated to take into account updates to Sandbox since the theme was developed.
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