Reverie: Versatile HTML5 WordPress Framework

What is Reverie Framework?

Reverie Framework is an extremely versatile HTML5 WordPress framework based on ZURB's Foundation, a powerful tool for building prototypes on any kind of devices. Reverie follows HTML5 Boilerplate standard and is hNews microformat ready. It is optimized for Search Engine while at the same time improve readability.

It is extremely easy to create your blog, CMS, brochure and any other kind of sites with Reverie. You can see some samples on ZURB and how they make these prototypes. Did I just mentioned Reverie works well with bbPress 2.0 and BuddyPress 1.5, even without styling?

What are the Features?

Reverie Framework inherits all the cool features from Foundation, and packs with several other interesting features to optimize the experience for WordPress and HTML5. Including customized output for WordPress menus and caption. You can view the features list by scrolling down.

Reverie utilizes Foundation's grid to implement layouts. It is quite easy to start building your own layouts (like this page). You can read Foundation's documentation for how to implement these cool features.

What about Mobile Devices?

Positive. With the power of Foundation, Reverie uses media query to adjust for all kinds of devices, including phones, tablets and computers. Reverie is also optimized for iPhone and iPad. Icons and loading images will be display when you save your website as a Home Screen app (example in the above image). Add this page to Home Screen on any iOS devices to see what I mean.

You can resize this page to see how Reverie responses according to different browser resolutions.

Basic Features

HTML5 Boilerplate standard and is hNews microformat ready.
Optimized for SEO.
Basic CSS included, you can also use it as a finished theme.
Foundation files are separate, you can update Foundation without any problems. Of course, is is always a good idea to have some backups.

WordPress Features

Clean image HTML output for TinyMCE, only class and alt are returned. Post title will be automatically used for alt.
Custom menu output for ZURB's sub nav.
Custom caption output for HTML5 figure and figcaption tags.
Custom filter for images, will automatically wrap images with figure tag.
Two Widget: sidebar and footer.
Two menus: top navigation menu and footer information menu.
Template structure inspired by Roots. Separated loops from templates, for better WordPress practice.
bbPress.php included, compatible with bbPress 2.0. Looks good even without styling.
Several custom page templates are included in the package. A folder named custom is used for storing all your custom page templates.
Check out what's new and how to implement extra features in the 2.0 version
Custom WordPress menu output, dropdown menu added.
Pagination added using WordPress built in function. (WordPress 3.1 required.)
Use Google Web Fonts Open Sans as major heading font.
Looks good but what if you don't need these features? Sure, you can turn them off.

Support

If you have any questions or problems regarding the framework, please submit them on Github.

Special Thanks

Thanks to the generosity of George from PressTrends, Reverie Framework is using the service to track the usage of the framework and help us to improve it.

License

Please note Reverie Framework is under MIT License, the same as Foundation. I encourage developers and designers to keep the footer information (which is "powered by Reverie Framework") to help me by spreading the message, though it's optional.

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