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[Haluk Karamete]

Thank you Unsal for your reply. I checked out your theme. It's great. But I
was more on the side of learning about the theoretical approach  to take as
how to combine the two jems the right way - as opposed to simply grab a
theme and start using it.

Thank you for your link anyway.


On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Ünsal Korkmaz <unsalkorkmaz at gmail.com>wrote:

> I strongly recommed you to consider FirmaSite <http://theme.firmasite.com/>
> as
> your parent theme. You can customize it with Child
> Themes<http://theme.firmasite.com/child-theme/>
> .
> Basically its using *ONLY* Bootstrap for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress.
> And those plugin's css files are removed! only bootstrap!
> That means you can add new bootstrap styles to system with child-themes and
> your all WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress will use your new bootstrap
> style. Do you need dark theme? no problem. Still same rules.
>
> Here is 2 example child-theme:
> http://social.theme.firmasite.com/
> http://shop.theme.firmasite.com/  (Didnt release yet. Will be my first
> premium theme. WooCommerce support and BuddyPress + WooCommerce
> integration! )
>
> Basically, its good codes theme and its best for Bootstrap + WordPress.
> There is no any other theme that only using bootstrap components and
> disables BuddyPress, bbPress ad woocommerce custom css.
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > For establishing a solid foundation in the on-going business of creating
> > professional WordPress themes, what would be the best approach so that
> the
> > themes you produce are "powered by" _s and the twitter bootstrap?
> >
> > It seems like there are some cross overs between the two; and that
> confuses
> > me.
> >
> > The fact that they both are from different developers and they tend to
> work
> > in their own isolated islands, I have a hard time integrating them in a
> > future proof way. Even though _s is a bare bone theme and the amount of
> > "undoing" to get you start is down to minimum, there is still work
> > involved, there is still some undo's to go thru. Responsiveness and the
> > layout system, class names etc..
> >
> > So far I am seeing the matter this way;
> >
> > I download and use the "_s" because working with "_s" would give me the
> > proper head-start in building my solid theme. By that, I will be able to
> > effortlessly start off with a theme which shines as far as all the WP
> best
> > practices out there and the PHP side of things. Let's simplify this point
> > and call that the reason I download "_s" is because I want to  take care
> of
> > the server side part of my theme.
> >
> > and then I download the twitter bootstrap.
> > I do this because working with bootstrap would give me the "talk of the
> > town" the client side of things..  bootsrap catching the world on fire..
> > more and more people are adopting just like the android...  their
> > responsiveness and the easy to work with grid system (which makes more
> and
> > more people being familiar with ) is I THINK where _s will be "UN-DONE".
> So
> > to simplify, let's say, the reason I download "bootstrap" is because I
> want
> > to  take care of the client side part of my theme.
> >
> > and then comes the 3rd moving part...  I have to add my own touch ( my
> > bells and my whistles ) to the above two. I do this because I want to
> make
> > my theme, well simply different, I want it to be noticeable in market
> > places and so on..
> >
> > When you have 3 moving parts like this ( and they all have their own
> > respective areas of wall of fame ) and the latter overwrites the former,
> > what do you do?
> >
> > when my client download that parent theme and follows the instructions
> that
> > he creates a child theme off of that, how do I make sure so that when one
> > or more of the above moving parts updated, I can tell my client to update
> > the parent theme in a future proof way? Is that even possible?
> >
> > One easy solution to this would be to tell the guys at twitter to work
> with
> > the guys at Automattic. That would have solved the problem, but I don't
> > think that's gonna happen. :(
> >
> > so what would be your take on this?
> >
> > thx.
> >
> > this question is also available at
> >
> >
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