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Bootstrap Site Blueprints

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Bootstrap Site Blueprints

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Bootstrap Site Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a custom base template


As a further testament to the power of the Roots theme, while the base.php file dictates fundamental layout for the entire site, we have the freedom to set up a custom base template to customize the fundamental layout structure when and where needed. We'll do that for our home page as shown in the following steps:

  1. Duplicate the base.php file.

  2. Name the new copy base-page-home.php. Because our page uses the page-home.php template file, Roots will check for a base template file by this name, and if it is found, Roots uses this file as the template for our home page.

    Note

    For more information on this base-template-choosing function, see the Roots documentation at http://roots.io/an-introduction-to-the-roots-theme-wrapper/.

  3. Open the new base-page-home.php file in your editor.

  4. Find the div tag of the wrap class and remove the container class from it so that it now reads as follows:

    <div class="wrap" role="document">
  5. We'll provide the container class where we need...