Bootstrap 4 theme for concrete5

This is a starter theme for concrete5 built on top of Bootstrap 4.

The purpose of this theme is not to be a fully fledged ready theme for concrete5. It is supposed to serve as a starting point for building further themes.

Using SCSS

Bootstrap 4 is built on SCSS which means that the CSS filed in this theme are using SCSS.

Traditionally, concrete5 makes you use Less for the CSS files but there is an add-on available that allows you to use any possible preprocessing language within concrete5.

This add-on is called Asset Pipeline.

You will need to install that add-on in order to use this theme.

Installation

1. Install the Asset Pipeline add-on.
2. Download or clone this repository and extract it into the /packages folder of your concrete5 installation.
3. Rename the folder to theme_bootstrap4_starter.
4. Open up your web browser and navigate to the Dashboard of the website. Install the add-on through the Extend view of the dashboard.
5. Apply this theme to be used for the site through the Pages & Themes view.

Building on this theme

As mentioned, this theme is meant to be used primarily as a starting point theme and not a theme you would use as-is on your site. To start a new theme based on this theme, please follow the following steps:

1. Download or clone this repository and extract it some place you can find it from.
2. Copy the folder under the themes folder named bootstrap4_starter to your application/themes folder.
3. Rename the theme with a name more suitable to your project (e.g. your_theme).
4. Open up the page_theme.php from the theme folder and do a couple of changes to that file:
   • Change the namespace to Application\Theme\YourTheme, please note that the name you defined for the theme folder defines also this namespace. Check concrete5 documentation for more details.
   • Change all other references to bootstrap4_starter into your_theme (according to the theme folder's name). There are e.g. some JavaScript paths that need to be changed.

Please also note that when building on this theme, you will also need to have the Asset Pipeline add-on installed in concrete5 because this relies on it.