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posted 1 year ago

Update to WP-Bootstrap: Now with Bootswatch themes

Thought i'd share a quick update on the [WP-Bootstrap](http://320press.com/wpbs) wordpress theme I've been working on. 

A few days ago I learned about [Thomas Park's Bootswatch](http://bootswatch.com) and thought i'd be a great fit for this theme since we built it so that we'd be able to swap the bootstrap.css files in and out as we pleased. So what I did was through the theme options panel enable the user to choose from a bootswatch theme for the look and feel of the site. This is done through an RSS feed of the themes coming from Bootswatch. The theme options panel goes out, retrieves the updated list of swatches from Bootswatch (CSS files), then loads these CSS files locally. 

Please let me know what you think. I'm interested in feedback/critique.

[Watch the project on github](https://github.com/320press/wordpress-bootstrap)

Thought i'd share a quick update on the WP-Bootstrap wordpress theme I've been working on.

A few days ago I learned about Thomas Park's Bootswatch and thought i'd be a great fit for this theme since we built it so that we'd be able to swap the bootstrap.css files in and out as we pleased. So what I did was through the theme options panel enable the user to choose from a bootswatch theme for the look and feel of the site. This is done through an RSS feed of the themes coming from Bootswatch. The theme options panel goes out, retrieves the updated list of swatches from Bootswatch (CSS files), then loads these CSS files locally.

Please let me know what you think. I'm interested in feedback/critique.

Watch the project on github

posted 1 year ago

WP-Foundation - A wordpress theme based on Zurb's Foundation framework

http://320press.com/wp-foundation

A few weeks ago I whipped up a wordpress theme based on twitter's bootstrap framework. Doing so helped me gain a better understanding of how everything fit together, but it also helped me put the framework through the paces so to speak and see just how rapid it helps make the prototyping process. I had a good time doing it so I decided to do one for Zurb's Foundation framework too.

After working with the two different frameworks I've decided Zurb's has a slight advantage due to the fact that it's so fluid right out of the box. I didn't have to do much to keep this responsive and looking pretty good on a mobile device. There are still a few bugs to work out, but wanted to get feedback from the community as soon as I could.

I tried to do this with both theme developers as well as the casual wordpress users in mind, so I'm looking for feedback from both perspectives.

Credit:

Zurb Foundation

Eddie Machado's Bones

Devin Says Options Framework

posted 1 year ago

Wordpress Bootstrap

http://320press.com/wpbs/

I just finished putting together a wordpress theme based on twitter's bootstrap framework. I realize this has been done before, but I wanted to share my take on it. The theme is a mashup of Bones (themble.com/…) and twitter's bootstrap. It was developed with both the theme developer as well as a more casual user in mind, so it could be taken and customized for your next project or just used as a standalone theme.

I'm really looking for your feedback and inviting you to contribute to it on Github (github.com/320press/…). What could be done better? What other options would be useful to include?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.