Spot Bootstrap WordPress Theme
Modern, responsive, “flat” style theme
Full-width Images and Sections
Set full-width “featured images” and use the included color palette to create stunning colored horizontal sections for your content.
Dark, Fixed Navbar and Custom Header
The navbar is fixed at the top of the page and you can upload a custom header.
Spot is an adaptation of the “Spot” 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 Spot 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
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76 responses to “Spot Bootstrap WordPress Theme”
Any way I could get the name of the font in this theme? I’d like to make my images fluid with the font theme. Thanks!
All of my themes (so far) use Raleway (similar to Arial) for the headings and Lato (similar to Helvetica) for the body text. These are both free Google fonts, so you can easily install them on your computer for use with Photoshop or whatever imaging software you want to use.
Hello Tim!
I’m using Spot theme + wordpress-4.1.1-es_ES (from https://es.wordpress.org/) and the Flat_Bootstrap/sidebar.php file is overwriting my custom sidebar and widgets no matter what I do it always defaults the sidebar to: widget_search-widget_pages-widget_tag_cloud.
When I change the main WP language to english, german or french the custom sidebar is displayed properly. I need the dynamic sidebar back, any suggestions?
This issue still exists (and was left unanswered even at that time). Using WP 4.3.1-HU with this theme and the default (right) sidebar widgets stay there no matter what widgets are selected and added in the Appearance > Widgets subpanel.
It might be the issue is somewhere in the parent (Flat Bootstrap) theme because the sidebar behaves in the same way: when switching language, the widgets stop working and only the default (hard coded) content of the sidebar is displayed.
I’m sorry you are having these issues. It sounds like there is probably a bug in the actual Spanish translate file itself (/wp-content/themes/flat-bootstrap/languages/es_ES.po). Can you turn on debugging temporarily in WordPress and see if that file is indeed returning an error? Add define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); in wp-config.php in your root WordPress folder then set it back to false..
Hi Tim, Spot is really cool, thanks!
I want to delete the Leave A Reply comment options on all my Spot pages. I went to Home in WP like was suggested above, and there was a link to the Discussions area, but no check box to disable comments. I’ve been to Discussions and unchecked all boxes there, but the Leave A Reply box is still there. Can you help? Thanks so much!
Its not in the discussions area, its on the individual pages (and posts). Thanks for the kind words about the theme!
I just installed Spot as my theme, and I’m noticing a weird glitch. When I go to my homepage (caitlinmoriaritywriter.com), the icons all show up as boxes at first. Reloading the homepage doesn’t do anything, but if I go to another page on my site, like the About page, the icons *do* show up. And when I go back to my homepage after clicking on the About page or another page, then the icons on the homepage do show up. This glitch shows up on two different computers, and in both Chrome and Firefox.
I don’t see any issues with icons on your site either in Chrome or Safari. Your site looks great! According to Font Awesome, the only browser not supported is IE7, which is ancient.
Huh, that’s weird. Well, as long as it’s not showing up for anyone else, I can live with it. And thanks for the compliment! I still have a lot of tweaking I want to do on my content pages (like putting up a grid portfolio, but ugh, resizing all those images by hand). But overall I really like the theme and how my site looks with it. I may mess around with the color palette next so that it doesn’t quite look so similar to the sample page.
Take a look at the color palette built into the parent theme (and all its child themes, including Spot). All the colors are designed to look good together. Our Theme Shortcodes. Also, each child theme has its own sample page that can be imported in the /samples folder and you can easily mix and match between themes. For the grid portfolio, try using the Jetpack plugin. Our Link Theme Sample Page uses it. When you choose the images to include, you can put a URL on each one to link over to your individual portfolio item pages (although I didn’t set all that up with the sample page).
Hi Tim. I really like the Spot theme. One tweak I’d like to make is to have more meta information display in the header of the posts. Or more specifically the author name and the more traditional links to other posts by that author. I see where you’ve “toned down” the info in the header. I tried changing that but wasn’t successful. Is there a quick change to the CSS I can make to show the author name next to the post date?
I coded the theme to display the author name and link to other posts only if the blog has more than one author. You’ll see the code in content-post-header.php in the parent theme. You can comment out the condition of is_multi_author() if you want to always display it. Do you have more than one author are you the only author but still want to see your name and link there?
Thanks. I’ll try commenting out the condition or maybe a simpler solution it to have at least one post by a different author. We have two admins, but all the posts have been by one person so we never discovered the “if 2” rule.
Hi!
I’m having trouble adding the call-to-action box on the bottom. It just doesn’t fill the whole width. What am I doing wrong? –> takinkroop.com
Add this to the very beginning of the text in the text widget:
<\div><\div>Thanks for the quick reply Tim!
Also – seems that header and footer doesn’t run to the edges either? (On a 1920px monitor)
I have limited the full width of the site to 1600px, mainly because the header images I include with the themes are that width, but I also figured the site would look strange if the header/footer stretched the full width of an iMac. You can easily change this, though. Just edit the max width in number of px or set it to 100%. Here is the theme’s CSS related to that:
/* Limit the page for really wide screens, such as an iMac */
#page {
max-width: 1600px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Adding didn’t work either 🙁
Ok, when you pasted the , it replaced it with special HTML characters. So that’s why your site is now showing those closing divs as text above the text box instead of actually closing the div’s that need to be closed to expand full-width. You can fix try to fix that or better yet, please update to the latest version of the Flat Bootstrap parent theme (v1.2) as it is now full-width by default without needing those closing div’s.
Hi,
How can i change social logo on footer bar and does it possible to put link in to that.
and on sample page [http://xtremelysocial.com/wordpress/samples/spot-sample/] on topic LATEST WORKS how do i do like that .
Thanks for your theme, Love it.
The easiest way to “edit” the social footer is to view the page source and copy the HTML. Then add a new text widget and paste the HTML there. Then you can edit it. Once you add your first widget to a widget area, like the footer, the samples will no longer display.
HI tim I struggleg to change the color with picker in the spot theme. so I used Pratt instead.
For now, you can add this to Spot’s style.css file to fix the issue with not being able to change the background color:
#page { background-color: transparent; }However, this is an issue with the parent theme and I’ll fix it in the next release.
thanks will do that
Hello Tim. I have been trying to change the background color of spot to no avail. I would like to change both the left and right side bar area, and content area from the standard grey to white. How can I do this. my site is askjeannuke.com
To change the background color, go to Customize -> Colors and set it with the color picker. It looks like you’ve already figured that out by looking at your site, though.
Hi – love the theme! Was wondering if it was possible to swap in a custom logo? Thanks so much!
See here for tips on how to add a custom logo.
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