See: Official Demo | Read: Official Docs Page
Website: https://understrap.com
Child Theme Project: https://github.com/understrap/understrap-child
OverStrap Child Themes: https://understrap.com/overstrap/
I’m a huge fan of Underscores, Bootstrap, and Sass. Why not combine these into a solid WordPress Theme Framework? That’s what UnderStrap is. You can use it as a starter theme and build your own theme on top of it. Or you can use it as a parent theme and create your own child theme for UnderStrap.
Note: This fork of Understrap is using the newly released stable version of Bootstrap 5.0.1. Everything else in this theme is the same as what would be found in the standard Understrap theme.
UnderStrap WordPress Theme, Copyright 2013-2018 Holger Koenemann UnderStrap is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html
See changelog
- Combines Underscore’s PHP/JS files and Bootstrap’s HTML/CSS/JS.
- Comes with Bootstrap (v5) Sass source files and additional .scss files. Nicely sorted and ready to add your own variables and customize the Bootstrap variables.
- Uses a single minified CSS file for all the basic stuff.
- Font Awesome integration (v4.7.0)
- Jetpack ready.
- WooCommerce support.
- Contact Form 7 support.
- Child Theme ready.
- Translation ready.
The _s theme is a good starting point to develop a WordPress theme. But it is “just” a raw starter theme. That means it outputs all the WordPress stuff correctly but without any layout or design. Why not add a well known and supported layout framework to have a solid, clean and responsive foundation? That’s where Bootstrap comes in.
Some basics about the Sass and CSS files that come with UnderStrap:
- The theme itself uses the
/style.css
file only to identify the theme inside of WordPress. The file is not loaded by the theme and does not include any styles. - The
/css/theme.css
and its minified little brother/css/theme.min.css
file(s) provides all styles. It is composed of five different SCSS sets and one variable file at/sass/theme.scss
:
@import "../src/bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap"; // 2. All the Bootstrap stuff - Don´t edit this!
@import "understrap/understrap"; // 3. Some basic WordPress stylings and needed styles to combine Boostrap and Underscores
@import "../src/fontawesome/scss/font-awesome"; // 4. Font Awesome Icon styles
// Any additional imported files //
@import "theme/theme"; // 5. Add your styles into this file
- Don’t edit the number 2-4 files/filesets listed above or you won’t be able to update UnderStrap without overwriting your own work!
- Your design goes into:
/sass/theme
.- Add your styles to the
/sass/theme/_theme.scss
file - And your variables to the
/sass/theme/_theme_variables.scss
- Or add other .scss files into it and
@import
it into/sass/theme/_theme.scss
.
- Add your styles to the
There are several ways to install UnderStrap. We'll look at three of them: (1) classic install by uploading UnderStrap to a WordPress install, (2) using npm, and (3) using the theme directory in WordPress.
- Download the understrap folder from GitHub or from https://understrap.com
- IMPORTANT: If you download it from GitHub make sure you rename the "understrap-master.zip" file just to "understrap.zip" or you might have problems using child themes!
- Upload it into your WordPress installation theme subfolder:
/wp-content/themes/
- Login to your WordPress backend
- Go to Appearance → Themes
- Activate the UnderStrap theme
- Open your terminal
- Change to the directory where you want to add UnderStrap
- Type
npm install understrap
- Open your WordPress backend
- Click on "Appearance -> Themes"
- Hit the "Add new" button
- Search for "UnderStrap"
- Hit the "install" button
- Activate the theme
- Make sure you have installed Node.js and Browser-Sync (optional) on your computer globally
- Then open your terminal and browse to the location of your UnderStrap copy
- Run:
$ npm install
To work with and compile your Sass files on the fly start:
$ gulp watch
Or, to run with Browser-Sync:
- First change the browser-sync options to reflect your environment in the file
/gulpconfig.json
in the beginning of the file:
{
"browserSyncOptions" : {
"proxy": "localhost/theme_test/", // <----- CHANGE HERE
"notify": false
},
...
};
- then run:
$ gulp watch-bs
The front-page slider is widget driven. Simply add more than one widget to widget position “Hero”.
- Click on Appearance → Widgets.
- Add two, or more, widgets of any kind to widget area “Hero”.
- That’s it.
Add a new file to the themes root folder called rtl.css. Add all alignments to this file according to this description: https://codex.wordpress.org/Right_to_Left_Language_Support
UnderStrap includes several different page template files: (1) blank template, (2) empty template, and (3) full width template.
The blank.php
template is useful when working with various page builders and can be used as a starting blank canvas.
The empty.php
template displays a header and a footer only. A good starting point for landing pages.
The fullwidthpage.php
template has full width layout without a sidebar.
[1] Visit http://browsersync.io for more information on Browser Sync
- Font Awesome: http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT)
- Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com | https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE (MIT)
- WP Bootstrap Navwalker by Edward McIntyre & William Patton: https://github.com/wp-bootstrap/wp-bootstrap-navwalker (GNU GPLv3)