Martin Dougiamas

Boxxie is looking really nice already Patrick - I'm using it! (Since the first one was Anomaly I have been wondering if you are planning to work your way through the alphabet )

1. You can use any core theme to base a new one on.

Base is a real bare-bones theme with basic layout only, no colors etc. It's a better basis for creative themes where you plan a lot of changes and don't want to be overriding styles all the time (as people used to have to do in 1.9). It's not really designed to be usable as a theme itself. And yes we should be correcting obvious layout problems in Base.

Standard (which is itself based on Base!) is a smoother usable theme for development purposes, more like the standard that everyone is used to from Moodle 1.x. It's still fairly minimalist. It's going to be a good basis for simpler themes that just want to add a few colours and images.

2. Yes, plugins should take care of their own Base layout in their own styles.css (example for forum)

The login page was originally like that because that's just how Moodle worked.

Later I left it like that (even though it's possible with roles) to encourage people to log in and participate, and to prevent too many random spiders crawling all over the site soaking up bandwidth and CPU (note that the big search engines are specifically allowed in, so searches work, and also people can get straight in if they are coming from a Google search result).

I guess we really should revisit this question if it's annoying, probably when moodle.org goes to 2.0 (there are a lot of changes relating to enrolments and guests).

However, for now you can do this:


eg http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147425&username=guest

Cheers

Note, this has been updated:


http://docs.moodle.org/en/Standard_Classification_of_Educational_Fields

I've excluded the MCCC course (some text may take a little while to revert, due to caching).

Happy April Fool's Day from down under!

Hi developers,

This is a heads-up that 1.9.8 is coming soon with a few security fixes.

Please be extremely cautious with any changes to MOODLE_19_STABLE at the moment:

• avoid any new features (as usual)
• avoid any database changes (of course)
• avoid any bug fixes (unless you are 100% sure there is no possibility of regressions)

If you find any show-stopper problems in this week's weekly build then please file "BLOCKER" issues in the tracker.

Cheers!