If you can’t wait to build your own custom WordPress theme, using a well coded, solid theme framework is a great way to start. Frameworks provide WordPress themes with common functionality and components for you to then create your own unique designs. This speeds up development time enormously.
In this post I’m going to experiment with one of the newer kids on the WordPress frameworks block, Beans, created by Thierry Muller. James George has also previously covered this topic on SitePoint in his article Introducing Beans.
More about the Beans Theme Framework
Beans is an Open Source, free WordPress theme framework boasting a lot of awesome features, which make it a great fit for both budding and experienced developers. Here are the main features below:
- Beans is mobile-first, fully responsive, and smart enough to create and serve images at the resolution most appropriate to the device in use.
- Lean code, caching, selective loading of assets, and minification techniques make Beans an amazingly light-weight and fast loading theme. This is great when it comes to Google page ranking and your website visitors’ happiness.
- The UIkit front end framework lends the theme its clean and modern appearance. However, if you’re wondering whether developing with Beans will tie you to UIkit, fear not. Beans is highly flexible and lets you load assets as you need them.
It’s time to get your copy of Beans and take it for a test drive.
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by Maria Antonietta Perna via SitePoint
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