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(created by cbrodigan, Feb 2012)

Blogzilla

"Blogzilla" is Mozilla's universal blog theme available to all official Mozilla blogs. It will launch in Q1 2012 (March).

Goals:

• Create consistent branding across the Mozilla blog universe to better help our users, journalists, and community.
• Reduce the need for secreview by creating a pre-approved blogging package
• Reduce the need for maintaining multiple themes & designs, replacing it with just a single theme)
• Ensure all our blogs are responsive out of the box
• Ensure all our blogs are using standard social buttons Bug 701759

Blogs Getting the Upgrade in Q1 2012

• Mozilla Blog - Bug 733154
• Privacy - Bug 733159
• Add-ons - Bug 733161
• Security - Bug 733157
• Identity - Bug 702460
• Channels - Bug 733159
• Metrics - Bug 733166
• Beyond the Code (Tristan's blog) - Bug 733164
• Places Bug 726076
• Market Insights (new!) Bug 733177
• Apps (new!) Bug 733170
• l10n (new!) Bug 733167

Pending:

• UX (new!) Bug 702464
• Gary's blog
• User Research
• UX

Plugins Included in the Upgrade

• Sitepress Multilingual CMS - (this is the main plugin) link
• WPML Translation Management - link
• WPML String Translation - link
• WPML Media - link
• FeedWordPress to syndicate content from other Mozilla blogs via RSS - link
• CMS Tree Page View, which just provides a nice UI for managing Pages - link

Development & Design Roadmap

Q1, 2012

• Launching theme v1.

Q2, 2012

• Localization
• Featured Post
• Child theme (1 design for magazine-like entry point for PR blog.mozilla.com)
• Theme for community sites

Q3, 2012

• coming soon

Q4, 2012

• coming soon

Using Blogzilla

• Activating the theme
• Title and tagline (leave tagline blank to remove it from the header)
• Adding/changing a custom header image
• Header image specs (size, transparency)
• Choosing a color scheme
• Showing/Hiding authors
• Filling out your author profile
• Adding/changing a navigation menu
• Sidebar widgets (leave the secondary sidebar blank to remove it)
• Making a child theme
• Localizing the theme (different from translating content... l10n at the theme level handles UI strings like comment form labels, "Posted by", etc)

Future Features (add your requests!)

• Featured posts
• More color schemes
• Alternative layouts (left sidebars, single column, etc)
• Custom favicon?
• Tumblr-like post types? (photo, quote, link)