Good Bones: The WP SandBox Theme

Good Bones is a SandBox Theme for WordPress. Over 3 months in the making, we’ve re-coded our entire “Super Skeleton” framework from the ground up to leverage the best, cleanest, fastest features that WordPress has to offer.

Quite simply, this is the best, easiest, most flexible theme that we have ever created (and we’ve been doing this for 5 years)... and it’s the foundation for what we truly believe will be some amazing websites by you guys & gals!

To celebrate our new Super Skeleton 2 Framework, we’re unrolling a brand new theme options panel that’s unlike anything we’ve released to date. Gone are the cumbersome, complex options of the past – The new SS2 theme panel features simple visual cues, nested inline documentation, and the option to preload one of our hand-crafted skins, or build your own using our professional Skin Builder.

The entire Google Fonts library is embedded as well… you can even preview the fonts LIVE in the admin panel before selecting them.

Also gone are the 20+ page templates that we used to use. Why? Because with the new Drag & Drop Layout Builder, you won’t need them anymore… a veritable world of possibilities is at your fingertips with just ONE template. No more memorizing which template does what… What you see is, literally, what you get.

That’s all fine and well… but what we’re really geeked out about is that it’s all based on rock solid, compliant SEO friendly code that passes every “WordPress Theme Review” test that we could throw at it. Good Bones allows you to fully unleash the new WordPress 3.6 Post Formats UI, which is a ThemeForest first!

Let’s dig in, shall we?

The Full List of Theme Features

WP 3.6 Post Formats Ready!

• Be ready for the new WP update before it even comes out!


• Unleash all 10 Post Formats in all their glory.


• Standard, Image, Video, Audio, Gallery, Quote, Aside, Status, Link, & Chat.


• Play music, video, or slideshows with the touch of a finger.


• Custom Styling for each Post Format.


• Playlists from Spotify or Rdio


• Local audio/video files or use any major service (YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, etc.)

The Super Skeleton 2 Options Panel

• Use the Skin Builder to color just about anything on the theme.


• Customize individual pages with highlight colors for visual content binding.


• Integrate easy social options.


• Build your own header layout design.


• Page-Sensitive options for easy customizing.

The Layout Builder – Leveraging the Drag & Drop Layout Builder plugin, featuring the ability to not only build your own layouts, but to also drop in one of 50+ content modules – including image sliders, tabbed content, text blocks, pricing tables, buttons, notes, quotes, and more!

Unique “Touch Slide” navigation menu for mobile devices.

Localized and ready for translation.

Advanced Responsive Design. These templates scale down intelligently to any device… from mobile phones to tablets to big wide-screen monitors. Look good everywhere!

Designer Quality Typography

• Over 650 Fonts – preview them live in the dashboard and pick them without looking at a single line of code.


• Easy Typekit Integration if you want even more.


• SEO / Semantic type elements.
  
• Pure “REM” sizing & unitless scaling (fancy words for “it’s easy to customize”).

Intelligent Documentation

• In-Dash, context-appropriate documentation.


• No need to open any PDF files.


• Discover how to use the theme features in the actual admin panel.


• Quick Start Checklist.


• Developer-friendly code documentation.

Multiple Sliders

• WP Slider Revolution (the top selling CodeCanyon plugin!)


• 2D / 3D Effects – Fixed or Full Width – Images, Video, or Text.


• Simple Sliders (using an easy visual builder UI)


• Tabbed Content Sliders (slide anything from text to videos!).


• JetPack Carousel for WP Galleries.

Professional Grade Lightbox

• Mobile-friendly.


• Optional Social Sharing for EACH image/video (great for pinning!)


• Pick one of 10 custom overlay effects.


• JetPack Carousel for WP Galleries.

The New Skeleton Grid Template

• Discover over 100 unique configurations (with more on the way!).


• Perhaps the easiest “Sortable Grid” system ever.


• Link to Posts or to a Lightbox.


• Perfect for Images, Video, or even Audio!

Visual Shortcodes – Add Buttons, Sliders, Pricing tables, and so many more!

Add a touch-friendly Blog-Carousel at the footer of any page to keep readers on your site.

Ultra High Resolution Retina Graphics.

Free Lifetime Theme Support & Updates.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – Get ready to be discovered.

Safe, Standards friendly jQuery Effects

Build your own contact forms with the incredible CF7 plugin

*Plugin Friendly! *GB passes some of the strictest theme rules out there… so if your plugin meets the standards, it’ll work with our theme.

Shopping / eCommerce | Coming Soon | TBD

Events Calendar Pro | Coming Soon | TBD

Theme Support

Got a question about how to use the theme? We’ve got answers. Our small team is serious about customer support – check out our dedicated support site built on the easy-to-use Ticksy platform.

Keep your ticket private for one-to-one assistance, or open your ticket up to the public and other theme users can help out as well as our expert support staff.

You’ll have access to this support site for life. No expirations.

The Extras

We’ve pre-packaged lots of goodies into our theme so you don’t have to. Note that all of these deserve the full credit for their own plugins/features/etc. – we’ve done the work integrating these awesome tools into our theme – they actually built the tools though. Here’s the list:

• WP Slider Revolution


• The Elegant Drag and Drop Builder Plugin (GPL/GNU)


• The Elegant Shortcodes Plugin (GPL/GNU)


• WP JackBox – Lightbox


• Foundation Icons (GPL/GNU)


• Responsive, Touch Friendly Advanced Scroller


• Responsive Multi-level Mobile Menu (GPL/GNU)


• Google Web Fonts

A Note on GPL/GNU: I’m personally a huge fan of GPL and as we’ve included some outstanding resources in our theme because of GPL, it’s only natural that I should want to extend the same privilege to other fine folks!

As far as we’re concerned, we’d like the use of this theme to be in full accordance with the GPL. What prevents us from doing so officially is the stipulation about plugin inclusion… In short, what isn’t GPL are the premium plugins that we’ve included (JackBox, Revolution Slider, Advanced Scroller, etc.). We can’t speak for those software makers, so if you want to use this theme in a GPL manner, you’ll need to remove those plugins or contact the authors for permission to do so.

I’ll very seriously consider releasing a fully open, stripped down, standalone version of this theme for that reason… but frankly, those premium plugins bring a lot to the table in terms of premium functionality, so it’s going to be a tough call. Just know that it’s ultimately our goal to release in accordance with GPL within the next couple of months, so we’ll hopefully be finding open source alternatives to any premium plugins so we can do so. If you have any leads on this sort of thing, let us know!

If you’re a fellow developer or designer and you would like to do something cool with our theme – go ahead and do so! Just keep in mind my note about the premium plugins (you can’t use them without the permission of their respective authors). Once you’ve done that, you are free to do anything with this theme that GPL might allow as far as I am concerned. If you have any questions, feel free to ping me at http://makedesign.ticksy.com with any questions. In regards to the official ThemeForest rules, check out this page.

Credits: In the demo we’ve used images from DesignModo’s UI kits.

Webbie - WordPress theme for ebook authors

Making eBooks Easy as Cake!

Designed with a dash of simplicity, a pinch of minimalism, and a healthy helping of elegance, Webbie is theme that lets you write, present & sell your ebook on wordpress with ease.

Its a responsive, opinionated premium theme built around making the writing, reading & selling of both ebooks and web books a breeze!

Features

Keyboard Navigation

This theme is all about making reading easy. When on a page with “Prev” and “Next” buttons, you can use the Left and Right keyboard keys to navigate to the next and/or previous chapter/post.

Off-Canvas Navigation

At small screen sizes, the sidebar will only be visible if activated by the top left menu icon. This is especially handy for distraction-free mobile reading.

Distraction-Free Reading

At larger screen sizes, it is possible to collapse the sidebar and get a relatively distraction-free reading experience. Active this mode by clicking the button just to
the right of the logo area.

eCommerce/ digital Downloads Ready

Integrate with the free Easy Digital Downloads and get started selling your book with ease!

Why stop at ePub and PDF ebook digital downloads? With Webbie, you can sell access to your book online! Integrate with the suggested plugin Restrict Content Pro — Premium Content Plugin and get more out of your ebook!

Custom Post Types

Chapters:

This Custom Post Type (CPT) lets you create and manage your web/ebook’s chapters. The functionality for this CPT is similar to that of Posts and should feel familiar.

Reviews:

People love your book, right? With the Reviews Custom Post Type, you can enter the various reviews your book has garnered. You’ll be able to provide a star-rating, if one was provided by a reviewer, as well as the reviewer’s image (use the Featured Post Image for this).

Features:

The Features Custom Post Type is where you tell your readers what they expect to find in your book. A brief rundown of the contents.

Responsive. Tablet & Mobile-Friendly

Webbie is responsive and mobile friendly on any device your website visitors are viewing your website on, it works and look great!

List of Features

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    100% Fully Responsive WordPress theme for Mac, PC, Tablet and Mobile Devices
    
  
  
  
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    Fully customizable with a vast amount of color options available
    
  
  
  
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  Coding & Documentation:
  
  
  
  • Fully valid XHTML Code
  
  
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