mattwhi / orbit2bootstrap

Orbit2 Bootstrap Theme

Wordpress Orbit2 Bootstrap Theme

This package is a bare bones package to enable theme developers to build a theme from this is not a final production copy

Using this theme you will have understanding of the WordPress requirements to build a theme from scratch

This is a basic setup to create a bootstrap wordpress theme using grunt and SASS

What you will need

You will need the following package installed on your machine

• NPM Package Manager
• Grunt-CLI NPM Install grunt-cli
• Ruby http://rubyinstaller.org/
• WAMP or equivelant LAMP installation
• WordPress installed on WAMP or eqivelant https://wordpress.org/download/ for local development

Set up

• fork this branch to your repository
• Clone the branch locally to download the files
• Enter the directory through command prompt type NPM install this will install all dependancies required
• Strart Development

Basic Instructions

Grunt commands

grunt will run the basic grunt command and watch changes to the SASS files

grunt orbit will clean and copy all relevant files to the dist folder

The dist folder is your final WordPress theme, once this is complete this can be zipped up and uploaded to your production instance of WordPress

Finally

Enjoy this package and build something amazing

History

This is theme is based on _S WordPress starter theme with their basic SASS removed and replaced with Bootstrap. I started this project as this is what I wanted from a WordPress starter theme, I was unable to find anything which matched my requirements so built this for my personal developments

This project is subject to continual inprovements, if you feel there is something missing please feel free to add to this to create a brilliant Bootstrap WordPress starter

Thank you