SUSY with WordPress

I've developed a couple of static sites using SUSY and have the hang of it. Currently, I have a SUSY site in development that will be brought over to a custom WordPress theme. Is anyone else here developing this way (I'm sure there are) and if so, is there anything that you ran across while converting that was out of the ordinary or that I'd need to keep an eye out for? I'm just trying to minimize the potential speed bumps before I get started. Thanks!

Jason

Solution

Quick thoughts from the bus stop —

I have used susy with a basic Wordpress theme. There is no inherent conflict, but many Wordpress themes have complex CSS structures, and complex inheritance that can easily trick you up.

The #1 way people screw up susy layouts is to add side margins, padding or borders unintentionally.

As long as you avoid this and carefully avoid predefined styles you should be fine.

In addition, some general pointers which are not emphasized in the docs:

'gem unpack susy' and study the contents of the gem! Most of the mixins are SUPER easy to read and I'm BAFFLED why some devs do not do this.
susy mixins should only be applied to a few key layout elements
add background colors liberally (not borders) to debug the layout

Cheers — Chris Blow