Pratt is an adaptation of the “Pratt” theme by Blacktie.co for WordPress. It is a modern, fully responsive, “flat” style theme with a nice color palette, big full-width images, and full-width colored sections. The navbar is fixed at the top of the page for easy navigation.

The Pratt theme is a child theme for Flat Bootstrap. The site title is displayed in the navbar, so you still retain your site branding.

It automatically adapts for desktops, tablets, and phones. It is based on the standard WordPress starter theme (_S) and the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework. The theme was inspired by the HTML/CSS themes from Blacktie.co and color schemes from Designmodo.com’s flat UI.

Features include a mobile navigation bar, multiple columns (grid), buttons, icons, labels, badges, tabbed content areas, collapsible content areas, progress bars, alert boxes, carousels (sliders) and much, much more.

This theme is designed to have a “static” home page and so when previewing the theme and when you first install it, a sample page is displayed. The theme is perfect for showcasing products or photos with a midnight blue page header.

Theme Features

  • Fully responsive theme that changes layouts for desktop, tablets, and phones
  • Navbar fixed to the top of the page for easy navigation
  • Modern, “flat” style theme with beautiful color palette
  • Big full-width featured images on any page
  • Full-width colored sections
  • Hundreds of icons from Bootstrap and Font Awesome
  • Variable column footer with 1 to 4 columns

WordPress Features Supported

custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, featured-image-header, featured-images, flexible-header, fluid-layout, full-width-template, left sidebar, light, one-column, responsive-layout, right sidebar, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready

Page Templates

  • Full-width page with colored page header
  • Full-width page without page header
  • Full-width page with three (3) most recent posts (in columns on desktop)
  • Page with right sidebar (default)
  • Page with left sidebar
  • Page without sidebar
  • Site Index with search, pages, categories, tags, and recent posts listings

We’ve even included the ability to have individual posts be full-width as well.

“Shortcodes”

Our “shortcodes” aren’t really shortcodes… you simply use the standard Bootstrap markup, such as < div class=”whatever”>. If you really like shortcodes instead, you can download either of these plugins. They both work just fine with this theme.

  • Colored buttons
  • Colored message boxes (alerts)
  • Tabbed content areas
  • Collapsible content areas
  • Sliders (carousels)
  • Everything else that the Bootstrap CSS framework has to offer!

Sample Usage

Pratt Full Page

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44 responses to “Pratt Bootstrap WordPress Theme”

  1. Christoph Wiemann Avatar
    Christoph Wiemann

    Hi,
    i really like your theme but is there a way to get some social links in the fixed navbar?
    i´m new with wordpress and don´t know some codes.
    THX

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      Sure. It’s not the most intuitive way in the world, but it can be done by adding links to the top nav menu. Start first by adding your social links to the menu. Test that out to make sure you have it all set up properly. Then the “trick” is to replace out the actual social site name (e.g. Facebook) with an icon from the set included with the theme. For example:
      <i class="fa fa-facebook">

      The i tag stands for “icon”. “fa” stands for font-awesome, which is the included icon set. fa-facebook is the Facebook icon.

      BTW, I’m looking into perhaps making this a bit easier in the future. I could automatically replace out the text link with the icon for the most popular social networking sites, but it would add a lot more CSS to the theme. I may try to find a way to do it with PHP so its more efficient.

  2. Lori M. Estep Avatar
    Lori M. Estep

    I love this theme! It was exactly what I was looking for when I launched my own business website. The only thing I cannot figure out is how to get rid of the ‘Call to Action’ area. I’ve cleared all the information in all of the widgets, but it is still there. If I could even edit it, that would be great, but I can’t find how to do that either. Please help!!

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      Just add a standard Text widget to the Page Bottom widget area. To be safe, put a space in the text box. The existence of any widget gets rid of the sample. If you want to edit the sample via PHP, that’s in sidebar-pagebottom.php, but your changes would get lost during theme updates. There is also a theme variable called xsbf_theme_options where you could write a simple couple-line plugin that sets ‘sample_widgets’ => false.

      BTW, I’m working on plugin that has a call-to-action widget to be able to easily replace the sample out without knowing any code.

      1. Lori M. Estep Avatar
        Lori M. Estep

        Awesome! Thank you so much!!!! And that plug-in will be wonderful

  3. raoulsheraz Avatar
    raoulsheraz

    Awsome theme. I was just wondering if i can use the scrollspy with your theme (i want to know if it’s included)?

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      Well, all Bootstrap components (CSS) and Javascript are included. But I assume you want to build a single-page website and use scrollspy to highlight the menu item depending on the section. You’ll probably need to make some tweaks to header.php and /inc/bootstrap-navmenu.php. That would be a cool feature to have. It would seem that when looping through the menu items, if the link only contains an anchor (e.g. #services, #ourteam), then you can use its a single-page menu and add the Bootstrap scrollspy tags.

  4. Kingsley Ify Avatar

    Can I use budypress with this theme?

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      You can use the theme with BuddyPress, but I have not included any specific styling for BuddyPress. I think there is a BP plugin out there that is designed to add basic BP styling to any theme. If you have trouble locating it, I’ll try to track it down. I experimented with BP, but it was a long time ago. I really just wanted a few of its features and am using a different plugin for the “members” features on this site (Well, actually I wrote some of it myself).

  5. Jonny Weaver Avatar

    I am pretty new to web development and appreciate the work that guys like you do to create themes like Pratt that are pretty awesome right out of the box. One thing I am having trouble figuring out is how to use a button as a link. Right now I have a button, but when I click on it, nothing happens.

    here is the section of the code where I THINK it should go:

    .” . _x( “You have a dream for your business. We can make it reality.”, null, ‘flat-bootstrap’ ) . ”
    .” . _x( ‘Click here to start the conversation’, null, ‘flat-bootstrap’ ) . ”

    I want it to go to http://www.jonnyweaver.com/contact

    Can you help me out?

    Thanks!

    1. Jonny Weaver Avatar

      Sorry, that code didn’t all paste correctly. If you go to http://www.jonnyweaver.com you will be able to see what I mean.

      Thanks!

      1. Johannes Williem Avatar
        Johannes Williem

        Hai Jonny Weaver .

        I want to ask …
        How you can link the Form Menu ( SEND BUTTON ) to your email .

        Can you tell me the way

        Thanks
        Johannes

  6. Андрей Тарасов Avatar

    Hello. I am happy to use your theme. Tell me, please, can I change the font size in the content of the site? Thank you

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      If you just want to change the body front size and not resize all the headings, you can add this CSS with the Jetpack Custom CSS plugin or add it directly to the theme’s style.css. The default body font is 18px, but you can change it like this:

      body { font-size: 16px; }
      
    2. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      Sure, with just a little bit of CSS. Its easiest if you use the Jetpack Plugin as it has a “Custom CSS” feature. You can just add body { font-size: 16px; } to it. Otherwise, you should create a child theme, but that is more complicated.

  7. Angelo Giammarresi Avatar

    Hi,
    among the several themes proposed by wordpress list your is clean. I have two doubts:
    1- If this is installed how child theme when I make my customizations they will be overwritten with the next version? Usually I create a child theme so theme options and other customization are retained through the updates.
    2- Have you used with mqTranslate plugin? Do you know if it is compatible.
    I’m using another premium theme but isn’t so compatible with mqtranslate
    This is my new website in progress, you can give a look my problem is I cannot use language quicktags to create different content when using gallery or videopost format. http://www.norwayinteractive.biz/
    Thanks for your support.
    Angelo

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      You are correct that Pratt (and Link and Spot) are all child themes of Flat Bootstrap. If you only want to make changes to the theme through CSS, then the Jetpack plugin has a Custom CSS module that let’s you store CSS to override the theme. That CSS is stored in the WordPress database and is retained indefinitely. There are also other custom CSS plugins if you don’t want to use Jetpack.

      If you absolutely need to change the PHP code, then I’d suggest copying Pratt over and giving it a new name. You can then make your edits there. Whenever Pratt is updated, you’d have to manually re-make your mods. However, the vast majority of theme updates are done to the parent theme (Flat Bootstrap). Pratt only has a functions.php and style.php file that are important. There are a couple of sidebars overridden in it, but that’s just to change the sample widgets that are displayed that you will replace with your real widgets anyway.

      I have not used the mqTranslate plugin. I’m not sure what might interfere with it because I’m following all WordPress theme guidelines religiously. In fact, my themes are based directly on WordPress’ own starter theme, called “_s”. Its what they use to develop all of the TwentyFifteen, etc. themes.

  8. Nic Bada Avatar

    Hello! I love your theme! I’m just having some trouble with the header. It looks great on the computer, but when I switch to an iPhone or another mobile device, it only displays the top left corner. Is there a way to center the header image, or shrink it for mobile view? Is that at all possible? Thank you!

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      I think all you need to do is update the Pratt theme to v1.3 and update the parent theme (Flat Bootstrap) to at least v1.4. The header images now crop to the center.

  9. Glenn Giblett Avatar

    Great theme! We are currently using it on http://www.wastejarproject.com and would like to know if there is a way to have featured/header images on author, tag and category pages as well? I thought it may require additional plugins, if so, do know of compatible ones?

    Thank you

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      The theme doesn’t provide a way to have different featured image headers on the “built-in” pages, like author, tag, etc. That is mainly because WordPress itself doesn’t provide that ability. I would do it with CSS. It would probably be easiest if you assigned a default header image for the entire site. That way your category, tag, etc. pages would at least have all the CSS necessary to display properly, you’d just need to override which background image gets displayed. For example, your category pages have a CSS class assigned like “category-eating-in”. The header image will be tagged with “section-image”. Then you set background-url to a different image.

  10. Darlan Silva Avatar

    Hello, first of all I wanna thank you for these awesome wordpress theme.
    But I have onde doubt.

    I need to know how can I make the name of my blog diseapear in the header, because the image on the background already has its name.

    Thanks for your support.
    Darlan Silva

    1. Tim Nicholson Avatar

      If you add this CSS, it will hide the site title within the nav bar. div.navbar-header { display: none; } Also, thanks for the kind words!

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