A streamlined approach to site building and theme development with WordPress
A comprehensive toolset for developing interactive websites & webapps
At a glance
Works with new or existing WordPress sites & themes including WordPress Multi-Site
A fully encapsulated, object oriented code base that won’t interfere with other third-party themes or plugins.
White-label the plugin’s pages/menus/icons with your own names & branding.
Make use of open-source libraries and services such as Fontello, OpenID, Facebook API, PHP-Excel, NOAA Weather API, YouTube API, etc.
Responsive components adapt to any display size – deploy for smartphones, desktops, kiosks, wall surfaces or even billboards. The goal being write once run anywhere.
Strong focus on minification, simplification, optimization, modern design patterns, core WordPress design patterns, and open-web standards.
Rapid prototyping – build website prototypes in as little as 5 minutes! Use the numerous, fully responsive shortcodes and designs for fancy buttons, accordions, drop-downs, columns and more. They’re programmable! Shortcodes can execute Javascript on click.
Built for web browsers with modern capabilities, using HTML5 and CSS3 animation techniques to avoid hefty libraries and images. Legacy browsers are not invited to the party.
Extensive documentation, tutorials and use examples which are updated regularly to inform users of new features and possibilities.
Club Membership offers paid subscribers access to support tickets, all tutorials and examples, theme updates, the Rapid Design Catalog, etc.
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- After comparing SASS/Compass with LESS CSS, I went LESS and got it implemented at TheRapidPlatform.com...
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- Status update! Definitely considering implementing SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) for Rapid...
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- This is the driving philosophy behind Rapid Platform, and it's where I've been putting my personal development...
- A few more smartphone screenshots...I like to test various backgrounds to make sure the elements can ...
- I noticed the severe lack of screenshots depicting a smartphone screen so here's one using a space background...
- Some experimental techniques using CSS3 filters for new age UI concepts that I'm hoping to make a part...
- With the next rendition of the Rapid Platform website (running RP 0.2) I'm hoping to roll out a hip new...
- It has been at least a week since I posted an update so here we go...a screenshot preview of the new ...
- Some [rp_button] examples demonstrating the new "design" attribute in version 0.2.
- Besides an overhaul to the code-base, there are some new features coming as well. In version 0.2, most...
- Major progress! Getting real close to a release for version 0.2 now... Following the release of version...
- I had a good discussion with some folks at Reddit about version 0.1. They raised a few concerns about...
- Rapid Platform Plugin Version 0.1 has been released! Being that this is the first release (alpha quality...
- Is it just me or does Google+ really need to add the option for Community moderators to change a post's...
- Screenshot of the admin (backend) page that was created with the Options Framework. The Maintenance page...
- Development update. Any time the developer adds new option definitions to the rapid-config.php file(s...
- Hi there, new to this community...thought I'd drop a link to what I've been working on for WordPress...