bitsy

Contributors: sewmyheadon, ivycat
Tags: translation-ready, custom-background, theme-options, custom-menu, post-formats, threaded-comments, performance optimized

Requires at least: 4.0
Tested up to: 4.9.5
Stable tag: 1.0.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Bitsy is a slim, optimized starter theme based on skel.io and underscores.me.

Description

Bitsy is a simple, optimized starter theme based on underscores, Skel, and Baseline with a cool theme wrapper to keep your code warm and DRY.

Bitsy includes support for Grunt to help you compile and optimize SASS, JS, update your readme.md file, and more.

Installation

Either upload the zip file through the WordPress Admin, or use git to clone the theme into you themes directory.

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button.
2. Click Upload and Choose File, then select the theme's .zip file. Click Install Now.
3. Click Activate to use your new theme right away.

Development

Since Bitsy is a starter theme, chances are you're going to continue theme development using Bitsy as a basis.

While you don't have to use it, Bitsy is all set up with Grunt to do the following:

• Compile SASS using Compass
• Test our JS
• Concatenate JS
• Copy your readme.txt to a readme.md file for GitHub or other git hosts.

Prerequisites

• Install or update Node and npm.
• Control any command-line fear.

Install Dependencies

Once Node and npm are installed and you've got the theme in the right place, you'll want to use the command line to cd into the theme directory and run npm install, which will pull in all of the required theme automation packages.

Frequently Asked Questions

There are a thousand good themes out there, why build another?

To learn and be lean.

Does this theme support any plugins?

Bitsy currently includes support for:

• Infinite Scroll in Jetpack.
• WooCommerce

Can I contribute?

Absolutely! Please feel free to contribute comments, suggestions, pull requests, dark chocolate, or bug reports in Bitsy's GitHub repo.

Changelog

1.0.1 - April 11 2018

• Bug fix: sidebar logic fixed so page templates always outrank site-wide defaults
• Enhancement: Increase font size and tune font vertical rhythm.
• Enhancement: Add custom header image capability with default.

1.0.0 - Dec 23 2017

• All decked out with new responsive sidebar templates and sidebar logic
• Default sidebar settings available through Theme Customizer
• Change page layout per-page using page templates: full width, left sidebar, right sidebar, left & right sidebars, and blank.
• Remove Generator tags for WordPress and WooCommerce
• Ignore PHPStorm project directory

0.9.9 - Dec 23 2017

• Add margin top when logged in to clear admin bar

0.9.8 - Dec 19 2017

• More color streamlining

0.9.7 - Dec 17 2017

• Streamline color definitions and variables
• Update header font sizing
• Fix footer class call

0.9.6 - Dec 10 2017

• Update readme files to document Grunt.

0.9.5 - Nov 24 2017

• Add WooCommerce support. Update to current _s.
• Add hooks for header, content, and footer classes.

0.9.3 - Nov 13 2017

• Minor docs update to help developers get started with Grunt.

0.9.2 - Jul 2 2017

• Minor docs updates - give credit to Baseline, linkify inspirational projects

0.8.1 - Jul 2 2017

• Minor docs update to give credit where it's due.

0.8 - Nov 5 2016

• Initial release

Code Quality

Credits

• Skel http://skel.io/, (C) 2016 skel.io, MIT
• Baseline https://github.com/ajlkn/baseline, (C) n33, MIT
• Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2017 Automattic, Inc., GPLv2 or later
• normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2017 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, MIT