How To Create A Responsive Bootstrap 4 Blogger Template
A basic guideline to create Bootstrap 4 templates for blogger platform.
There are 3 main steps to create a complete Bootstrap template for your blog that works correctly for the homepage, page and post. The main steps which you need to focus are the Bootstrap CSS framework installation and the required change in the <b:section> of the <b:includable id='post' var='post'>
Quickstart
Required Bootstrap materials for Integration process
- Metadata
- CSS Stylesheet
- Javascript files
<head> Section
A process to manage the pre-built components in the <head> Section.
<b:skin>tag<b:template-skin>tag- Additional external CSS
<body> Section
A process to manage pre-built components in the <body> section.
- Pre-built margin setting
<b:includable id='post' var='post'>- Add Navbar, Header and Footer
These method and tip to create a Bootstrap 4 Template for Blogger are based on our findings from our works. We elaborate in a step-by-step process to install Bootstrap 4 CSS and to integrate Bootstrap 4 CSS and Javascript files onto the <head> Section of the template. This guideline also shows how to create sidebar and post snippet and to handle display issues on blogger page types (homepage, post, page and search result page) and on view breakpoints such as extra small (XS), small (SM), medium (MD), large (LG) and extra large (XL) screens.
Other common blogger issues related to the process are thumbnails, images and layout margin issues . You will realize about these issues during the process. We will share the method to solve the issues as it is important to make your template is completely functioning.
Bootstrap 4 Material References
Getbootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world
Quickly design and customize responsive mobile-first sites with Bootstrap
Reference Pages
MDBootstrap Comprehensive Bootstrap 4 Tutorials
MDBoostrap has comprehensive tutorials for Bootstrap 4 which are FREE to use and easy to understand.
Reference Pages
We hope that this guideline will give you a basic idea to use Bootstrap 4 on your blog. Your web design creativity is unlimited as Bootstrap 4 has an endless combination of styles to choose from.
As this is our learning process too, we believe that there is a room for an improvement in our guideline. We welcome others to give their comments on this topic, or perhaps to correct any mistakes which we may overlook. Thank You.
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