Website: https://github.com/skoglar/Paraguas
I’m a huge fan of Underscores, Bootstrap, and Sass. Why not combine these into a solid WordPress Theme Framework? That’s what Paraguas 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 Paraguas.
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 Paraguas:
- The theme itself uses the
/style.css
file 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 "paraguas/paraguas"; // 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
.
- Add your styles to the
There are several ways to install Paraguas. We'll look at three of them: (1) classic install by uploading Paraguas to a WordPress install, (2) using npm, and (3) using the theme directory in WordPress.
- Download the paraguas folder from GitHub or from https://paraguas.com
- IMPORTANT: If you download it from GitHub make sure you rename the "paraguas-master.zip" file just to "paraguas.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 Paraguas theme
- Open your terminal
- Change to the directory where you want to add Paraguas
- Type
npm install paraguas
- Open your WordPress backend
- Click on "Appearance -> Themes"
- Hit the "Add new" button
- Search for "Paraguas"
- 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 Paraguas 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
Paraguas 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 License)
- Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com | https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE (Code licensed under MIT documentation under CC BY 3.0.) and of course
- jQuery: https://jquery.org | (Code licensed under MIT)
- WP Bootstrap Navwalker by Edward McIntyre: https://github.com/twittem/wp-bootstrap-navwalker | GNU GPL
- Bootstrap Gallery Script based on Roots Sage Gallery: https://github.com/roots/sage/blob/5b9786b8ceecfe717db55666efe5bcf0c9e1801c/lib/gallery.php