Best Reloaded – A Bootstrap 3 Powered WordPress Theme

The theme is still a little rough around the edges so I would appreciate you reporting any problem you find, no matter how small.

3 customizable featured areas per page

Theme comes equipt with a set of 3 matching featured areas per page. You can customize each of them on a page-per-page basis using custom-meta values.

Each area has a contextual variant so you can experiment with different color combinations and find what works best.

There’s an unlimited amount of ways you make use of these.

 

There’s a variety of different colors and button styles for you to choose from to give these areas context and allow you to get the look matching the feel of the content just right.

Welcome Text

This is right below the site title. Use it to say something about your site or highlight something. Perfect for marketing purposes. There’s 2 versions of this used.

  1. Homepage Welcome Text – this appears on only the homepage & archives pages. Use it to introduce yourself and your site.
  2. Inner Welcome Text – Split-test up to 4 variations of the welcome text on inner pages of your site.

Override the welcome text on a specific page by setting the custom meta “fbo” to “true”. You can then set your own featured text using custom meta “fbo-text” and add your markup as the value. Additionally you can remove the bar from a page by setting “fbo” to “true” but leaving “fbo-text” empty.

Standard markup wrapping this area is:

<div class="featured-bar">
<div class="row">
<!--Enter your columns of content-->
</row>
</div>

(you can use this markup when overriding to maintain a consistent look)

Post Opening & Ending Featured Areas

These sections are set-up primarily to act as a widget areas. Place an adverts widget here or a newsletter signup form.

Use the opening slot to start your post off with a compelling offer.

The ending slot is perfect for a newsletter signup or a call to action so you never leave readers stuck not knowing what they should do next.

Default usage is similar to what’s used in the intro-text area.

<div class="featured-bar featured-bar-post">
<div class="row">
<!--Enter your content-->
</row>
</div>
Post Opening Featured Area

Override this with the meta “ofo” value “true” to remove. Set “ofo-text” with your markup to specify the section per page.

4 page templates including a custom homepage

Sidbear right

sidebar-right

Sidebar Left

sidebar-right

Full Width

full-width

Custom Homepage

custom layout diagram of bootstrap theme homepage. grid of elements

custom layout diagram of bootstrap theme homepage. grid of elements

Layout for the custom homepage template

Custom Homepage Template

Best Reloaded comes with a custom homepage layout that gives you plenty of ways to highlight your most important content. Includes a featured slider & a selection of widget areas plus a showcase of your latest posts.

Use the Welcome Area to say a bit about yourself and the slider to draw attention to your best content.

Make use of the many widget areas for opt-in forms, ads or other widgets.

custom homepage overlayed with custom bootstrap grid

Live demo of the custom homepage in action

Special Highlighted Post Template

A custom highlighted post format – turn a post into a landing page.

Sometimes there’s a specific post you want to highlight. Other times you might want to capitalize on some unexpected success and turn that post into a landing page.

Transform a single post into a no-sidebar landing page with ease! Set the meta value “full-width-post” to “true” and your done.

Floating Social Share Buttons

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Integragtion wth Jetpack’s Share module allows me to move the share buttons to the opening of the post and have them float unobtrusively along with the content as the user scrolls.