This Bootplate project is free and open-source. If you’d like to help support it, there are a few ways to do so.
- Submit your idea for improvement on GitHub.
- Buy the team at JDM Digital a beer (and keep Bootplate free)
- Fork the code on GitHub and extend it yourself. Your awesome code may become a part of the master code base!
- Enable the “Theme Credit” text in the footer of the site (it’s off by default in Theme Options).
If none of those sound interesting to you, we’re out of ideas.
About the Project
Building even totally custom WordPress themes contains a lot of repetition. There are certain templates you just end up re-creating again and again. Worse, you end up using a lot of functions that make the theme play well with WordPress, popular WordPress plugin classes, as well as different versions of Bootstrap.
Our vision for Bootplate is pretty simple. Here goes.
- Use WordPress Themeing Best Practices
- Extend via Plugins (not theme-specific)
- Customize using Vanilla CSS (with some helpful stuff already there)
- Keep it supported using Child Themes
- Build for Bootstrap v4 Alpha 2, with fallbacks and custom CSS for production-ready Bootstrap 3.3.x
- Mobile-first, Fast-loading (no bloat)
- No Branding–at least not ours
- Free and Open Source
Why Free and Open-Source?
JDM Digital is a digital agency specializing in web design and based in Dallas, Texas. The designers and developers there essentially built Bootplate for themselves to re-use, test and extend. Once they got it pretty much there, they had a party. After a few too many beers, they descided to offer the code base up on GitHub (and eventually on WordPress.org) for the world to download and use for free.
We’re glad they did that. We hope you are too.