How do I integrate a CMS with Bootstrap?

Vinod Chacko

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I have a new client and she is requirement to build a website using Bootstrap. The client is happy with the design that I created on Photoshop but she wants to dynamically update it themselves. What would be the best CMS to integrate with the site and how would I do this? Would it be worth building my own? Please share your advice!
 

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There are several WordPress themes based on bootstrap, but that's not really the best CMS for bootstrap. For example, the menu require a tips to be compatible with bootstrap.
But you may find one you can adapt. There are some basic theme on wordpress.org

If you don't want to use WordPress, there are also several others good CMS compatible with bootstrap (Typo3, Joomla, Silverstripe, etc...)
My favorite at the moment is Grav. Light, Fast and with all the plugins required already included.
 

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Oh yeah another 1-up for Grav. It's as easy as it gets - plus there are already a bunch of bootstrap reliant themes ready that you can use.

Also, another plus for Grav is it's frugal design - making it a great CMS solution for not so resource savvy servers.
 

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If you really understanding every aspect of bootstrap, you can use any CMS. It does not matter if a theme support bootstrap or not, however it would be a lot easier. Look for a theme that closely resemble your design. Draw out the structure of that theme..

For example
Code:
<body>
<div class=topmenu>
<div class=subtop></div>
</div>
 <div class=body>
<div class=subbody></div>
</div>
<div class=footer>
<div class=subfooter></div>
</div>
</body>
In my schematic it would look like something like this.

-->div topmenu (css property)
---->div subtop (css property)

-->div body (css property)
---->div subbody (css property)

-->div footer (css property)
---->div subfooter (css property)

After having the schematic drawing of the theme I can remove their css class and use the correct class from bootstap. I can convert their class name into ID for structure data. Therefore I can have ID to identify my tags. This I can structure my tags while using bootstrap class as my rendering property.

You can built your CMS but a good CMS does not take one month to build. It is quite a bit longer. However if you can make one, there is a lot of thing you can do with it. Nevertheless take into consideration that it may have bugs. It may have security vulnerability.
 

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I work with many CMS's in my job and I can 100% recommend WordPress as one of the best CMS's to use. It's very adaptable and the end user can get to grips with it very, very fast. It's got worldwide support and there's a reason so many websites use it due to it's flexibility and ease of use. I personally use the Bootstrap framework for almost all my projects now and as someone mentioned above, there's free themes out there that do support Bootstrap out the box. I have clients ranging from 18 y/o's to my oldest customer who is 72 and he works on WordPress no problems what so ever. If you need more advice on this, feel free to PM me.
 
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