Custom Wordpress with Bootstrap

Anthony Hind funny you mention this. I just posted up the course I just finished recording and I'm looking for some smaller course content to do. Starting a theme from bootstrap could be cool, no? However, I feel like it would overlap with theme from scratch course. Maybe replace it?

To change the bg images dynamically is super simple! You just use the body_class() in your body tag and WP will assign a unique class to each page, and types of pages.

Then it's just a matter of using the different classes in your css to target the correct background image.

No idea if there's a plugin out there to do it but yes, you can do it with PHP or jQuery. I'd do it with PHP as doing it with jQuery will mean that all the possible images you want to use will need to be downloaded before the one you want is loaded.

A simple conditional saying if this is page x, then load this piece of code else move on and load the next one till we've met our conditional.

Have a look at Randy's PHP video about changing the page title depending on the page, same principle applies.

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for pointing that out. I will take a look.

Cheers Anthony

Thanks Zac,

It would great if you could do some Wordpress and Bootstrap videos, I have followed your blog post and it's so useful and great for fast site development, it would be useful to see how wordpress and bootstrap can be customised and used.

From my point of view a theme walk through would be extremely useful especially with regards to maybe integrating the carousel and modals to be dynamic, or implementing the breadcrumbs with the bootstrapped styles, I'm sure you have much more of an idea.... Maybe even just a what to do and not to do when setting up wordpress and a framework like bootstrap.

Key areas I tend to struggle our forms, sliders and dynamic features that wordpress is packed full of just from your blog post and theme videos I'm much more confident with wordpress now I don't think it would be a problem replacing or somehow covering a theme from scratch an then a theme from bootstrap if anything I think it would highlight the benefits of each different method and give us students a good grasp off both methods...

Cheers

Ant

Can I somehow use this same body class function to style the bootstrap jumbotron ? for example if I had a large full width jumbotron at the top of my pages could i then change the images depending on the page ??

Zac, I don't know what the pedagogical philosophy is over there, but multiple "Build a WordPress theme" courses would be awesome and very helpful to me, and I think to other people learning this stuff. It will help solidify skills we might be iffy on by perhaps presenting challenges for new angles, or by presenting different types of solutions to similar problems.

In summary: please do a Bootstrap WP theme course!

Hey folks!

Okay, I'm about to start working on a How to Build Websites with WordPress course to replace the blog one, which is a little outdated.

Based on your suggestions I am going to start working on a Beginners WordPress Theme Development with Bootstrap and Advanced WordPress Theme Development with Bootstrap Course as well. I have to think about it some more, but I'm open to the idea. Thanks Anthony Hind Tom Leger :)

There is a chance that I might approach this a little differently though. I will likely take the approach of pretending like a don't know anything and then walking through how to figure it out. Googling questions, downloading files as needed, looking up little tricks for customizations, and that sort of thing. I will have to figure out as well if I release it in bits and pieces or all at once

That's sounds great Zac thanks for taking my comments on board, I think that's a great idea doing it from scratch like your a beginner yourself im looking forward to it already...

That's sounds great Zac thanks for taking my comments on board, I think that's a great idea doing it from scratch like your a beginner yourself im looking forward to it already...