WordPress Theme for CLF 2.0

I was very pleased this week to see the Office of the Privacy Commissioner blog using WordPress. The blog follows the common look and feel (CLF 2.0) set out by the Treasury Board.

Canadian Privacty Commissioner Blog

It’s great to see WordPress being used on a government site. Kudos to the authors who put it together.

Seeing that it can be done, we put together our own CLF 2.0 WP theme for DFO.

UPDATE: A new CLF2 version 2.1 WordPress theme is nearing completion.  It uses HTML 5 and is based on the soon to be released Government of Canada Web Experience Toolkit (WET) templates.

You can view the theme in action here: http://www.lostprototype.com/clf2v2-nsi2v2/

  1. September 26th, 2007 at 21:04 | #1

    I like their warning about social networks and privacy: I’m sure that’s quite accurate, watch what you publish.

    http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2007/09/21/social-networks-be-careful/

  2. DBast
    September 23rd, 2008 at 15:27 | #2

    Where can I get the WordPress CLF2.0 theme?

  3. DBast
    November 22nd, 2008 at 23:18 | #3

    Thanks!

    A site has been created to gather CLF themes – would you mind if I contact them about this one?

    http://commonlookandfeel.ca/clf/

  4. November 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 | #4

    Please feel free to share. The theme I put together isn’t perfect, but it’s a pretty good start. I’d love to see others contributing towards improving it.

    There’s also a Drupal CLF 2 theme underway over at:
    http://clf.dev.openconcept.ca/

  5. December 4th, 2008 at 06:19 | #5

    We'd love to compile and make available CLF themes for all open source applications. We're looking at full community participation.

  6. December 6th, 2008 at 02:47 | #6

    Yes, please share and distribute. Thanks.

  7. Aaron
    November 30th, 2009 at 10:19 | #7

    We’ve prototyped something like this and looking to make a case for it. the bilingualism is the toughest part. You say qtranslate is difficult to setup, but is it difficult to operationalize?

  8. December 9th, 2009 at 10:28 | #8

    qtranslate works pretty good actually. You’ll have to tweak your theme a little (such as the banner and footer), but it’s worth checking out.
    In our department, the only CLF2 wordpress installs are for internal use and contributors write in either French or English (or both).

  9. September 22nd, 2010 at 06:42 | #9

    Thanks, never seen on a government site WordPress. Looking for the new CLF2 version 2.1 WordPress theme!

  10. January 11th, 2011 at 12:53 | #10

    I didn’t know about the Drupal CLF 2 theme, thanks for letting us know.

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