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.
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/
Categories: User Experience, Web Apps Add new tag, CLF2.0, privacy-commissioner-blog, wordpress-theme
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/
Where can I get the WordPress CLF2.0 theme?
Thanks!
A site has been created to gather CLF themes – would you mind if I contact them about this one?
http://commonlookandfeel.ca/clf/
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/
We'd love to compile and make available CLF themes for all open source applications. We're looking at full community participation.
Yes, please share and distribute. Thanks.
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?
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).
Thanks, never seen on a government site WordPress. Looking for the new CLF2 version 2.1 WordPress theme!
I didn’t know about the Drupal CLF 2 theme, thanks for letting us know.