Chapter 3. Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme

Now let's turn our design from Chapter 2, Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio, into a WordPress theme. There are many Bootstrap-based themes that we could choose. We've taken care to integrate Bootstrap's powerful LESS styles and JavaScript plugins with the best practices found in the HTML5 Boilerplate. It will be to our advantage to use a theme that does the same.

The Roots theme has established itself as a starter theme that leverages the power of Bootstrap while hewing to the implementation of best practices at every turn, including the HTML5 Boilerplate among other excellent touches. We'll use this theme for this exercise.

In this chapter, we will perform the following:

• Integrate our customized LESS and JavaScript files with the Roots theme

• Customize the theme template files to deliver the markup we need for our home page carousel and column content

• Utilize the powerful and advanced custom fields plugin to provide custom fields for our carousel items and...