Say hello to Radiant Factory, our new theming service for Radiant CMS.

Basically, Radiant Factory is a theming service for Radiant CMS. We take your design and content and turn it into a series of layouts, snippets, and pages that you (or your client) can manage with the fabulous Radiant content management system.

I’ve fallen in love with Radiant’s easy, straightforward website administration. Honestly, I always hated content management and website update tasks until Radiant came along. The idea behind Radiant Factory is simple: share the love. Radiant Factory is my way of helping web designers provide an even better product to their clients.

So check it out and let me know what you think. Your feedback is appreciated!

Radiant is a great Content Management System, but one of its biggest shortcomings has been the lack of support for comments. This may be alright for static sites, but it pretty much means you can’t use Radiant to manage a blog.

Until now. Radiant now supports comments through my Comments extension.

Take a look at the demo site, where you can see Radiant with Comments in action.

To use Comments, you’ll need to be running the Mental branch of Radiant. Just check out Comments into your vendor/extensions directory:

svn co http://svn.artofmission.com/svn/plugins/radiant/extensions/comments/ vendor/extensions

Setting up Mental Radiant and installing extensions is not for the faint-hearted. I expect it will get better though, because Radiant has an active development community, and I’m not finished yet with Comments.

There is a lot to do to complete the Comments extension. If you use Comments, please send in any patches or improvements that you do.