Preserve settings and customizations when updating Bootstrap

Recently i launched the Bootstrap CLI tool. This tool installs Bootstrap 4 and an example template to start your project. The templates for the Bootstrap CLI tool install Bootstrap 4 with bower, which means that you can update Bootstrap by simply running bower update. Updating Bootstrap shouldn’t destroy your changes. All of Bootstrap’s Sass variable
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Bootstrap 4 and WordPress

As already mentioned in my previous post about Bootstrap 4; i have built a WordPress Starter Theme with Bootstrap 4. If you like both Bootstrap and WordPress you should really try it! People claim that Bootstrap and WordPress don’t always match, some opinions about that can be found at When to Use Bootstrap for Your
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Bootstrap 4 meets WordPress

Bootstrap 4 is coming soon! I build a WordPress theme for Bootstrap 4 (alpha release) inspired on the JOINTSWP starters theme. Bootstrap 4 comes with many improvements and new features. Bootstrap 4 is compiled with Sass instead of Less now. You can download the JBST 4 theme at: https://github.com/bassjobsen/jbst-4-sass/archive/master.zip. Now you can use Gulp and
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How to install a Start Bootstrap theme on Ruby on Rails 4 using Sass?

I want to install a theme called Grayscale of Start Bootstrap and I don’t know how to do it. user2993674 on Stackoverflow Install a new Ruby on Rails by running >> rails new grayscale. Navigate to your project folder >> cd grayscale then run the following commands: Sass / SCSS >> git clone https://github.com/blackfyre/https://github.com/blackfyre/grayscale-sass.git.git >>
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Why does Bootstrap have nav and nav-stacked as different classes?

The “Why does Bootstrap have nav and nav-stacked as different classes?” was original posted on stackoverflow. You could ask the same for the .btn and .btn-* classes or the .navbar classes and many other classes in Bootstrap’s Less code. In short: CSS size (there’re hundreds of such specific-class/base-class tiers so if each .btn-sm would inherit
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Less for the Ionic framework

This week I started to build a Less version for the Ionic framework. The Ionic framework, or shortly Ionic is a beautiful, open source front-end SDK for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5. Why should you need a Less version when there’s already a SASS version? Well, I know that Less vs SASS had been
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FireLess and Less v2

In my Less Web Development Essentials book which can be found at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/less-web-development-essentials i refer to FireLess for client side compiling and debugging Less code. When compiling your Less code in browser you can not use CSS sourcemaps to map the compiled code to its origin. There’s no technical barrier to get inline source maps
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Packt’s $5 eBonanza returns

My first book “Less Web Development Essentials” was published by Packt Publishing and also my coming book “Less Web Development Cookbook” will be publish be Packt Publishing. It’s a real pleasure to work with Packt Publishing. They will give all the support I need to write my books. I also love that Packt supports open
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How to change Bootstrap’s carousel animation

The popular carousel plugin of Bootstrap has been used on many websites. The jQuery plugin itself uses CSS class from the Less code of Bootstrap. So you can not change the classes names use for the carousel structure (without changing the plugin too). In most situations you will not change the original source code of
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Compile Bootstrap with Less v2 and the autoprefix plugin

Since Bootstrap v3.2 the grunt autoprefixer plugin is part of Bootstrap’s build process. This autoprefixer postprocessor makes the prefix mixins (found in less/mixins/vendor-prefixes.less) deprecated. Less 2 introduced plugins for the Less compiler, see also http://lesscss.org/usage/#plugins. These plugins enables you to add your own postprocessors. Postprocessors change the compiled CSS code. An example can be found
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