by: John F. Marion
version: 0.0
This Bootstrap Wordpress Theme is a very bare-bones Wordpress Theme that you can use. It makes use of the Bootstrap CSS themes available from Bootswatch.com. I threw it together quickly for something I wanted to do, and it is still work in progress. It works, though.
The header is a navbar at the top that includes the name of the blog. The sidebar is the right. The sidebar has the search and archive widgets hardcoded in, so you should either remove those widgets from within Wordpress or delete my hardcoded ones ( More under "Customizing" ). By default, all your widgets will be placed inside Bootstrap panel-primary divs. For the main content, if it is multiple posts they will have h3 tags for the title, if it is a page or single post it will have an h1 tag. The footer contains some acknowledgements.
To use this, just download the entire contents of this repository, have them in a folder when you unzip them, and place it under wp-content/themes in your WordPress installation.
At the moment, I haven't made any theme options availabe through the Wordpress GUI, but there a few easy customizations. I tried to put somewhat helpful comments in the code where you might do some tweaks.
If you would prefer a different Bootstrap theme from whichever I happen to have as the default, go to header.php and change the CSS link near the top to the one you want. If you want to look at different options, go to BootstrapCDN and look at the them. Choose any url and it should work fine.
I commented in sidebar.php about how you could delete stuff from the file. I chose to hardcode some things in, and as I use this for websites I will probably hardcode the entire sidebar. The reason for this is that is difficult/impossible to get into the styling of any possible widgets you might have and make them look right. I wanted more variance that having everything in a panel-primary.
To get only your widgets, clean up sidebar.php to including only the opening and closing div lines and the two php lines in the middle. If you want to add your own hardcoded widgets, you can use mine as a template.
I have included standard acknowledgements to WordPress, Twitter, and myself in the default footer. If you delete footer.php, WordPress will insert an acknowledgement to itself at the bottom. If you want to have no acknowledgements in your WordPress, I have including comments in footer.php indicating the part of the footer that can safely be eliminated.
There are many pages that go into a complete WordPress theme, so if you want more tailored pages copy the contents of basic.php as a starting point. See WordPress Template Hierarchies for more on how this works.
- 404.php: This is the code for how your site will look if a user tried to get to a page that does not exist.
- basic.php: This is not actually used in the theme. It is a good template if you want to write your own tailored pages for the theme.
- comments.php: The template for the comment interface.
- footer.php: The bottom of all the pages.
- function.php: Registration of the main menu.
- header.php: The top of all the pages.
- index.php: The default template and the template for multi-post pages.
- README.md: The file that you are currently reading.
- searchform.php: Customized code for the search widget and 404.php pages.
- sidebar.php: The side of all the pages.
- singular.php: The template for single-entry pages.
- style.css: I have added no styling to Bootstrap at the moment. This file contains metadata about the theme.