Website: https://understrap.com

Child Theme Project: https://github.com/understrap/understrap-child

OverStrap Child Themes: https://understrap.com/overstrap/

I’m a huge fan of Underscores, Bootstrap, and Sass. Why not combine these into a solid WordPress Theme Framework? That’s what UnderStrap is. You can use it as a starter theme and build your own theme on top of it. Or you can use it as a parent theme and create your own child theme for UnderStrap.

UnderStrap WordPress Theme, Copyright 2013-2018 Holger Koenemann UnderStrap is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

See changelog

• Combines Underscore’s PHP/JS files and Bootstrap’s HTML/CSS/JS.
• Comes with Bootstrap (v4) Sass source files and additional .scss files. Nicely sorted and ready to add your own variables and customize the Bootstrap variables.
• Uses a single minified CSS file for all the basic stuff.
• Font Awesome integration (v4.7.0)
• Jetpack ready.
• WooCommerce support.
• Contact Form 7 support.
• Child Theme ready.
• Translation ready.

The _s theme is a good starting point to develop a WordPress theme. But it is “just” a raw starter theme. That means it outputs all the WordPress stuff correctly but without any layout or design. Why not add a well known and supported layout framework to have a solid, clean and responsive foundation? That’s where Bootstrap comes in.

Some basics about the Sass and CSS files that come with UnderStrap:

• The theme itself uses the /style.cssfile only to identify the theme inside of WordPress. The file is not loaded by the theme and does not include any styles.
• The /css/theme.css and its minified little brother /css/theme.min.css file(s) provides all styles. It is composed of five different SCSS sets and one variable file at /sass/theme.scss:

@import "../src/bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap";  // 2. All the Bootstrap stuff - Don´t edit this!
@import "understrap/understrap"; // 3. Some basic WordPress stylings and needed styles to combine Boostrap and Underscores
@import "../src/fontawesome/scss/font-awesome"; // 4. Font Awesome Icon styles
// Any additional imported files //
@import "theme/theme";  // 5. Add your styles into this file

• Don’t edit the number 2-4 files/filesets listed above or you won’t be able to update UnderStrap without overwriting your own work!
• Your design goes into: /sass/theme.
  • Add your styles to the /sass/theme/_theme.scss file
  • And your variables to the /sass/theme/_theme_variables.scss
  • Or add other .scss files into it and @import it into /sass/theme/_theme.scss.

There are several ways to install UnderStrap. We'll look at three of them: (1) classic install by uploading UnderStrap to a WordPress install, (2) using npm, and (3) using the theme directory in WordPress.

• Download the understrap folder from GitHub or from https://understrap.com
• IMPORTANT: If you download it from GitHub make sure you rename the "understrap-master.zip" file just to "understrap.zip" or you might have problems using child themes!
• Upload it into your WordPress installation theme subfolder: /wp-content/themes/
• Login to your WordPress backend
• Go to Appearance → Themes
• Activate the UnderStrap theme

• Open your terminal
• Change to the directory where you want to add UnderStrap
• Type npm install understrap

• Open your WordPress backend
• Click on "Appearance -> Themes"
• Hit the "Add new" button
• Search for "UnderStrap"
• Hit the "install" button
• Activate the theme

• Make sure you have installed Node.js and Browser-Sync (optional) on your computer globally
• Then open your terminal and browse to the location of your UnderStrap copy
• Run: $ npm install

To work with and compile your Sass files on the fly start:

• $ gulp watch

Or, to run with Browser-Sync:

• First change the browser-sync options to reflect your environment in the file /gulpconfig.json in the beginning of the file:

{
    "browserSyncOptions" : {
        "proxy": "localhost/theme_test/", // <----- CHANGE HERE
        "notify": false
    },
    ...
};

• then run: $ gulp watch-bs

The front-page slider is widget driven. Simply add more than one widget to widget position “Hero”.

• Click on Appearance → Widgets.
• Add two, or more, widgets of any kind to widget area “Hero”.
• That’s it.

Add a new file to the themes root folder called rtl.css. Add all alignments to this file according to this description: https://codex.wordpress.org/Right_to_Left_Language_Support

UnderStrap includes several different page template files: (1) blank template, (2) empty template, and (3) full width template.

The blank.php template is useful when working with various page builders and can be used as a starting blank canvas.

The empty.php template displays a header and a footer only. A good starting point for landing pages.

The fullwidthpage.php template has full width layout without a sidebar.

[1] Visit http://browsersync.io for more information on Browser Sync

• Font Awesome: http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT)
• Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com | https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE (MIT)
• WP Bootstrap Navwalker by Edward McIntyre & William Patton: https://github.com/wp-bootstrap/wp-bootstrap-navwalker (GNU GPLv3)