We’re proud to announce the APLHA release of Bootplate. It’s designed for building awesome and responsive WordPress websites that are as stunning as they are fast to load. We like to think of it more as a “theme framework” than a lowly starter theme, but read on and decide for yourself.
We combined a working theme preview with a documentation site which is the “parent” theme. It’s pretty basic, and that’s intentional. It’s designed to be extended via plugins and transformed using child themes.
You’ll find we’ve actually combined classes and grid options from production-ready Bootstrap 3.3.6 and from Bootstrap 4-alpha 2. Sprinkle on a little performance work and some WordPress best practices, and you’ll find Bootplate could be your go-to for all Bootstrap-based WordPress theme design projects.
The web design nerds at JDM Digital essentially built Bootplate for themselves to re-use, test and extend. Once it was pretty much done, they threw a little party.
After a few too many beers, they decided to offer the master code base up on GitHub (and eventually on WordPress.org) for the world to download and use for free.
Was that a good idea? We think so.
All-in JDM spent 15 days writing code for 25 commits and about 13,800 lines of code. No small feat given they’re doing this in their “free time,” whatever that is.
Now that v0.7-alpha 2 has been released, we’re already looking forward to v1-beta.
Staty tuned to our Milestones and New Releases blog for the latest and don’t forget to “star” or “watch” Bootplate’s repo on GitHub.