We were thrilled to find a little write-up about Bootplate featured on ColorLib’s 18 Resources for Bootstrap 4. Here’s what they had to say: Bootplate is going to get itself a lot of admiration if it continues to keep up the good work of releasing boilerplates and skeleton templates for Bootstrap 4 niche based themes.… more Bootplate Love from ColorLib
After a year-long hiatus, the friendly web design nerds at JDM Digital are finally getting back to making the final changes, completing QC, and merging the development branch into master. Then we’ll release Bootplate v2.0. What’s planned for v2? Let’s take a look. New Blog Layout Option We love the newspaper layout included in Bootplate… more Bootplate v2 Coming Soon
We’re thrilled at the reception Bootplate v1.x has received and that has inspired a lot of ideas for an upcoming version 2.0. Here are just a few things we’re thinking about in this next big release. Faster oEmbed Media Embedded content with external requests can really slow a site down. This is especially true when… more The Future of Bootplate
Version 1.9 of Bootplate has just been released on the GitHub repo. We’ve included the usual bug fixes identified over time as well as better compatibility and smarter functions. Perhaps the most significant fix is making the “Link” Post Format a lot smarter with the new bootplate_get_post_link() function which intelligently checks inside the content of… more Link Post Format Fix in v1.9
We absolutely adore WordPress, but without taking the right precautions, you can end up with a sluggish site. We believe good website performance equals good web design. It’s a big part of what our Bootplate theme framework project is all about. Why Performance Matters First time visitors will only hang around for a few seconds… more Good Performance is Good Design
Bootplate is all about being a wicked-fast WordPress theme. After a lot of review of the work by the Filament Group on their loadCSS.js project, we decided to include a few custom functions in version 1.5 that copies WordPress’ CSS and JS enqueue process, but allows for heavier CSS to be loaded asynchronously (i.e. without… more Asynchronous Loading CSS in v1.5