Bones: Simplify the Process of Creating a Wordpress Theme

by Charles__L • 14 years ago

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neovive• 14 years ago

Very impressive and well-documented. I wonder if this could be the Bootstrap of the WP world (although much more lightweight and not actually a framework). Did I mention the well-documented CSS.

ckluis• 14 years ago

http://320press.com/wpbs/features/ - the bootstrap of the WP world is based on Bones + Bootstrap.

Or you have the Roots theme if you are willing to break some wordpress conventions for cleaner code as an end product.

cowsaysoink• 14 years ago

For those interested in this they might also check out underscores theme by Automattic[1].

Bones is an okay starter but if feels like a more thrown together bundling of the latest and greatest of the web development trends (320andup, sass/less, html5boilerplate) than a functional starter theme. But at least it follows the wordpress coding guidelines unlike roots[2].

Question for those who understand open source licenses can this theme even be licensed under the WTFPL considering that it uses wordpress provided functions like (get_header and wp_enqueue_styles)?

[1] https://github.com/Automattic/_s or http://underscores.me/

[2] http://www.rootstheme.com/

alexizamerican• 14 years ago

We used the Bones template as our starting point for http://www.noshon.it. It served as a great barebones theme to customize off of. As previously mentioned, the documentation throughout all of the files is awesome - very helpful for first time Wordpress work.

We actually replaced the 320grid and other styles with Bootstrap because of familiarity with the framework.

Bones: Simplify the Process of Creating a Wordpress Theme

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