Open Source Bootstrap Starter Theme

  • pjhampton

    (@pjhampton)


    10 years ago

    Hey there.

    I have used WordPress + Bootstrap together frequently in my day to day work (freelancing) and I have been compiling a starter theme to speed up my development. It’s a project called BigBooty and is hosted on github at https://github.com/pjhampton

    The starter theme is:

    * Supposed to be ‘full-fat’ without an admin panel
    * cut out a lot of ad-hoc activities when creating a new theme
    * not make any pre-define designed / development decisions (such as use Sass, Gulp etc)
    * be easy to use
    * not seem alien to people who don’t use WP

    I would love if some people forked this, starred it and helped me turn it into a viable starter theme. The plan is to eventually port it to Bootstrap 4.

    I am interested in working with experienced wordpress devs, noobs looking their first PR on github or people looking to develop community themes. Hope to hear from some devs, designers and users.

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  • doubleedesign

    (@doubleedesign)

    10 years ago

    Thanks for sharing! From the brief look I just had it looks really tidy which is half the battle when choosing a starter theme. I am trying to do similar with Zurb Foundation at the moment but will give your theme a go on an upcoming site as I like to mix it up occasionally 😉

    not make any pre-define designed / development decisions (such as use Sass, Gulp etc)

    I like this in theory, as I use a GUI compiler rather than Grunt/Gulp/etc and find that I had to remove and rearrange a lot of stuff when forking a starter theme to make my own version. But it would be nice to have an explanation of how to use the SASS/LESS version of Bootstrap as anyone in their right mind would want to learn to do so 😉

    noobs looking their first PR on github

    I fit into this category, haha. Can you PR documentation? I’d be happy to write up some SASS explanation as I go that you can then use.

    Thread Starter pjhampton

    (@pjhampton)

    10 years ago

    Hey @doubleedesign

    You can’t PR docs, but the wiki is open for hacking 🙂 Any docs / community education are appreciated!

    As for not making any predefined design / development decisions, this is because Less might be a better for one project, and Sass on another. Or Brunch.io on one, or Gulp on another. It really depends on the project and I think an experienced dev with these technologies should be able to integrate it in no time!

    Hope you find some use for it ^_^

    doubleedesign

    (@doubleedesign)

    10 years ago

    Less might be a better for one project, and Sass on another. Or Brunch.io on one, or Gulp on another.

    Fair call! And I do like that I can choose how to integrate these tools without having to undo anything you had already set up. It will also mean downloading the latest Bootstrap SASS files for every project which is probably not a bad thing!

    I look forward to giving it a go. I have a project in mind that I will be starting in a few weeks 🙂

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