Pimp Your bootScore

Now, I know what bootScore is: the miss­ing link between Boot­strap and my Word­Press-based site, a theme using the Boot­strap tech­nique. In a pure instance, every­thing works well but in an infe­ri­or design. That’s intend­ed by bootScore: You shall design your site by mod­i­fy­ing the bootScore files in a child-theme. Thus, I obvi­ous­ly have to start a pro­gram­ming project named pimp your bootScore.

Start point:

• I am going to start with a Word­Press site using a Yaml-Css based theme,
• into which I’ve installed bootScore in accor­dance with its instal­la­tion guide
• and out of which I’ve erased all pic­tures from my old posts and pages, the Word­Press media bank, and the file sys­tem¹
• I’ve rearranged my menu into a two-dimen­sion­al form²,
• added the wid­gets ‘Recent Posts’, ‘Cat­e­gories’, and ‘Tag Cloud’ into the side­bar, just as bootScore had deliv­ered them.
• Final­ly, I’ve reduced my for­mer tax­on­o­my of cat­e­gories.

Scope statement:

• My site has a mul­ti­di­men­sion­al nav­i­ga­tion menu
• with a self-open­ing hover-effect³
• which uses the non-Boot­strap menu tech­nique, Super­fish.
• My ‘lat­est post wid­get’ uses thumb­nails of the Fea­tured-Images,
• the Word­Press loop gen­er­at­ing the post-sur­vey page uses scal­able fea­tured images
• while the post page embeds them into the text as enlarge­able pic­tures.⁴
• My site uses mean­ing­ful bread­crumbs,
• starts with a spe­cif­ic Home- respec­tive­ly Front­page, editable by Guten­berg
• and makes the post-sur­vey acces­si­ble by anoth­er method.
• It direct­ly imple­ments basic SEO tech­niques and
• inte­grates extend­ed SEO tech­niques by using a SEO plu­g­in.
• My site uses the Boot­strap grid tech­nique for pre­sent­ing con­tent in a more fan­cy way
• and Boot­strap design ele­ments (col­ors) to bet­ter design the appear­ance
• It uses font awe­some pic­tures with the help of bootScore,
• devel­ops a respec­tive short­code,
• and embeds local­ly installed pret­ty google fonts
• Final­ly, my site places the meta ele­ments into the foot­ers deliv­ered by bootScore
• and stream­lines the exist­ing con­tent.

While cre­at­ing such a Word­Press instance, I want to make sure that I use free soft­ware as much as pos­si­ble.

Summary:

So, in all, I want

• to build a more fan­cy bootScore-based web­site,
• while doc­u­ment­ing my solu­tions
• for enabling my future self to look up how I have done it in the past

In this way, a set of small posts shall arise that ben­e­fit me and oth­ers.

1. by clear­ing wp-content/uploads [↩]
2. because a pure bootScore instance ignores deep­er embed­ded menu entries [↩]
3. on large screens [↩]
4. via fan­cy­box [↩]