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What the starting themes of those sites are?

March 6, 2023 at 2:26 pm #9513

[anonymous]

Hi,

I was wondering what could be the starting themes of those Publii sites:

https://paraflare.com

https://101.eu/

https://www.romancoinbag.com

It will be showcase site of couple handmade products, and project budget is zero, only took it to learn Publii, so I would like to modify a free theme and to do something like this. Mostly interested in layouts will not steal copyrighted design for sure.

March 6, 2023 at 8:58 pm #9517

Bob

The first two projects are custom works; the third is based on the Cortado theme.

March 7, 2023 at 9:47 pm #9522

[anonymous]

Thank you!

If I would like to create the custom theme… What are the general suggestions or limitation?

Is it a good idea to start with Bootstrap based theme or it is a bit overkill?

March 14, 2023 at 6:43 pm #9551

[anonymous]

[anonymous] wrote:

Thank you!

If I would like to create the custom theme… What are the general suggestions or limitation?

Is it a good idea to start with Bootstrap based theme or it is a bit overkill?

This is what I am studying now. Publii themes are a bit more complex than your general wordpress or Jekyll theme, as they also contain all the “logic” for the theme settings that one would allow in the Publii application. I would suppose you could make a theme that is fairly static and have very little modification capability through the Publii application interface. In that case – start with the “Blank” theme found in the Developer Documentation.

I do not think it is impossible to use existing frameworks (like Bootstrap or Bulma) for theme development, but they are not use in the available themes for Publii as near as I can tell.

Good luck.

March 16, 2023 at 7:24 pm #9584

[anonymous]

I’ve made a few custom themes, and I like to work from one of the themes and modify then using theme overrides: https://getpublii.com/dev/theme-overrides/

Publii’s themes are well built, so there’s no reason for me to create one from scratch.

My favourite ones are Mercury, and Persona, but I’d recommend using whichever theme that is as close (layout-wise) as what you have in mind, if you’re going that route. Fonts and colours are easy enough to swap out, but layout (flexbox, grid) is what’s a bit of a pain for me.

In terms of Bootstrap + Publii: give this guide a look: https://github.com/SimonPadbury/Publii-Bootstrap-Starter/tree/master/TUTORIALS