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Custom base.php file with Roots Theme

Photo Credit I talk a lot about the Roots theme. It’s our favorite starter theme and comes with our favorite responsive framework. Roots come with its own theme wrapper which makes it a little difficult to understand for people new to WordPress. The base.php takes the place of the usual index.php file in a WordPress […]

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Common Bootstrap Customizations

The latest version of Bootstrap 3.x has some great UI features out of the box, but you’ll have to customize it to really make it your own. You can override the Bootstrap CSS with your own, but it’s so much easier to make small edits to the source LESS files and then compile them into […]

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Who moved my app.css? (Roots Theme)

If you’ve been using the Roots theme, you might be in for a surprise if you upgrade to the latest version (6.5.0+). The familiar base CSS files (bootstrap.css and bootstrap-responsive.css) and blank custom file (app.css) have been replaced with a single compressed file, main.min.css. The newest version of Roots is designed for developers with access […]

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Clickable Parent Menu Items with Roots Theme and Twitter Bootstrap

Most users are familiar with dropdown menus on websites. Move your mouse pointer over the parent and it shows the dropdown menu with the children links. The Twitter Bootstrap, in order to accommodate mobile devices, has this functionality as “on click” for the dropdown to appear, instead of mouse over. As a result, the top […]