I said a long time ago that I would never use another theme framework now that I have Museum Core. Well, unfortunately for me, WordCamp SLC — particularly the presentations of Jake Spurlock, George Ortiz and Patrick Cox, as well as working on the theme which was based on _s — changed my mind on that. I now think that the best solution for jumpstarting a new theme project is a combination of Twitter Bootstrap and _s.
But this post isn’t about what makes those two frameworks awesome (you can read about that on their respective sites, or just Google _s and Twitter Bootstrap for awesomesause). I just wanted to share a quick Alfred extension I made that will setup a WordPress theme based on the _s theme framework that also loads Twitter Bootstrap assets into your theme’s directory. Note: this doesn’t enqueue any of the styles or javascript. I may add that later. For now, this just sets up the directories and pulls the latest versions of each framework from their GitHub repositories. It will also initialize a Git repo if you want to use Git for version control for your theme. (Note for the uninitiated: Alfred Extensions require the Powerpack.)
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