Tim Nicholson

I designed the theme to pull the title from the featured image. That’s definitely how I want it to work for pages. That way, instead of a page title you can put whatever you want. For consistency, posts with featured images work the same way. Would it be possible for you to just set the text on the featured image to what you want the page title to be?

Hmm. Adding anything to the page bottom widget area should remove the sample widget. If you want to go nuclear on it, you could edit sidebar-pagebottom.php. Or even easier, you can set this line in functions.php:
'sample_widgets' => true,

to this:
'sample_widgets' => false,

If you are OK with a “sticky” nav bar that remains at the top of the screen, you can use my Pratt theme instead. Its almost identical to Flat Bootstrap, but it places the site name in the left of the top nav bar.

Unfortunately, that is the way Bootstrap works and they aren’t going to change it. They say that with so much mobile traffic, they want users to have to click on the parent to open the menu. I have toyed with the idea of allowing for a way to use standard WordPress menus instead of Bootstrap’s menus, but my themes were all designed to be Bootstrap themes so most users are expecting them to work the way that they work now.

What I do is make the first sub-item be a link to all items. E.g.

WordPress
All WordPress Themes
Flat Bootstrap
Pratt
Spot
Etc.

Sorry this took so long, but I’ve found the problem and believe I have it fixed. I’ll include it in the next version of Flat Bootstrap (v1.6). That will fix it there and also Spot and all my other child themes. Thanks for finding this bug!

If you want to fix it yourself now, go into /flat-bootstrap/content-header.php and find this code:

/*
	 * IF TITLE THEN GET SUBTITLE, FIRST FROM THE TERM DESCRIPTION, THEN FROM OUR CUSTOM
	 * PAGE TITLE
	 */
	if ( $title AND ! $subtitle ) {
		$subtitle = term_description();
		if ( ! $subtitle ) $subtitle = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_subtitle', $single = true );
	}

and change it to this:

/*
	 * IF TITLE THEN GET SUBTITLE, FIRST FROM THE TERM DESCRIPTION, THEN FROM OUR CUSTOM
	 * PAGE TITLE
	 */
	if ( $title AND ! $subtitle ) {
		$subtitle = term_description();
		if ( ! $subtitle AND !is_archive() ) $subtitle = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_subtitle', $single = true );
	}

Notice the addition of the AND !is_archive() that I added.

Thanks for the kind words! What you need to do after each new “section” div is put the content in a container. So it should look like this:

<div class="section color-white bg-darkmidnightblue">
<div class="container">
Your stuff here
</div>
</div>

Try creating a custom menu in Appearance->Menus and assign it to the “Header Menu” location. Although the theme is supposed to display your pages if one is not set up. But try that anyway as it should fix your issue.

I updated the Bootstrap version in Flat Bootstrap v1.6. However, I ended up adding so much to v1.6 that it needs more testing so hasn’t been released yet. Specifically it has Bootstrap v3.3.2 in it.

If you want to help test Flat Bootstrap v1.6, let me know. I could push the latest build of it to my github account for how to download from there. Its pretty stable. I’ve been running it on my production website for a while now.

Also, as a side note, if you are a Bootstrap guru… you could take my specific Bootstrap config file and use that to download the latest version of Bootstrap. Of course it wouldn’t be tested with the theme, but in general they are mostly fixing bugs within the 3.x builds. Be sure not to just grab the “stock” Bootstrap, though, because I’ve made a LOT of changes to it so that I don’t have to have even more CSS overrides within the theme.