While in Arizona Matt Thomas and I implemented a new theme that Matt Mullenweg came up with: Prologue. It is a Twitter inspired WordPress theme. Here’s the run down:
- Post new entries right at the top of the page (assuming you are logged in and are allowed to post new entries to the blog)
- Front page shows the most recent post from every user on the blog
- The tags on the sidebar are sorted by most recently used
- All the other stuff in a typical WordPress theme: tag, author and single post pages
For the sidebar there is also a widget for showing the most recently used tags, which allows you to set the title and how many tags you want to show. That will be handy for sites that have many tags, but only want to see the 10 or 15 most recent.
Prologue is completely self contained as a WordPress theme. It’s now available for use on WordPress.com and also works with self hosted WordPress.org installs. If you want to use it with your WordPress.org install you can get it from the public Subversion repository:
http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/prologue/
I’ve heard a few people request to have a single zip file to download instead of using Subversion. I’ll see what I can do to accommodate those folks, in the meantime I highly recommend learning Subversion for this sort of thing, it will make keeping up to date much easier.
UPDATE 9:45am 4 Aug 2008: You can find the latest version of Prologue available for download from the WordPress Theme Directory at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/prologue.