Connecting Bootstrap Template to a Backend such as Wordpress

Hi franoprey. Thanks for your question.

I see you are learning Bootstrap, and seem to be enjoying the experience so far. That's great!

I also understand that you'd like to use your Bootstrap skills with a website that is powered by both Bootstrap and a CMS.

I believe what you're thinking of when you mention manual updates, is editing a dynamic site using a GUI, as opposed to editing code to make onsite changes.

"What I am looking for is a Bootstrap front end theme that is connected to a powerful CMS backend that enables me to update the pages easily and then also enable users to create new accounts and edit their own pages etc."

Ok. There are plenty of free Bootstrap themes for well known CMS, especially WordPress.

There are also courses on Team Treehouse, and an entire track devoted to WordPress Development, that I would highly recommend, should you wish to take your customisations further.

Just wondering if it is possible to do this by connecting Bootstrap to WordPress or does anyone have any other advice on this?

Absolutely, you can either purchase or download a free WordPress theme that uses Bootstrap. Just search Google for 'Bootstrap WordPress theme', or if you want to use your Bootstrap skills and learn some development skills, you can take the Team Treehouse course on 'WordPress Theme Development' alongside _s, a WordPress starter theme.

During the course, you'll learn how to enqueue stylesheets and scripts, which is what you'd need to do to add Bootstrap to a theme that doesn't already use it.

Here's the course: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/wordpress-theme-development

Here's the videos on how you can make a WordPress theme connect with Bootstrap:

1. https://teamtreehouse.com/library/wordpress-theme-development/working-with-css-and-js-in-wordpress-themes/adding-css-to-a-theme-via-the-functionsphp-file
2. https://teamtreehouse.com/library/wordpress-theme-development/working-with-css-and-js-in-wordpress-themes/how-to-link-to-js-from-functionsphp-file

In terms of payments, take a look at WooCommerce, or if you want to remain not a developer, just look for themes that support WooCommerce out of the box. One good plugin that may also help is called Paid Memberships Pro, which I've heard is highly recommended.

Let me know if you have any other questions?

Thanks for the advice Carl, really helpful!

Cheers