Orbit - a WordPress Web Development Framework by Ryan Urban

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What is Orbit

Orbit is a web development framework to assist you in getting your WordPress (or a static) site setup, configured, and into orbit quickly so you can focus your development time on building your project.

Orbit is also built to help in putting together solid, responsive, sites utilizing all my favorite frameworks, to save me development time implementing my approach towards building sites. This framework contains various bits shared from the best developers and frameworks around the web including:

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Features

Built to be Responsive (5 media query increments and 2 retina specific queries to serve high-res images for mobile and tablet)
Use of Modernizr for progressive enhancement and no-js fallbacks
Use of Selectivizr (along with jQuery Extended Selectors) so you can use those juicy CSS3 selectors across browsers
Includes a template for your startup screens and icons
Includes modular SASS files for your use, including the mixins, variables, and functions
Basic WordPress theme setup (with more to come), stripped down and cleaned out
A huge dose of functions to customize just about every aspect of WordPress that you would typically want for client projects
Custom install.php file to customize your WordPress install, saving you setup time (get rid of default content, set options, activate our theme, and more)
Custom functionality plugin to make your customizations theme agnostic
Use of the Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress, which is simple to use and allows you to quickly create nice looking custom areas for your users
Has a theme-test folder with instructions and plugins for testing your theme against the WordPress standard
Provides a customized wp-config.php template for better site optimization
Provides a htaccess file based on the Roots file (based on Boilerplate) setup for WordPress, with the addition of the 5G Blacklist/Firewall for additional security
Provides a list of go-to plugins for use with your WordPress site
Built to make WordPress more secure
Fairly complete documentation on the various files, functions, and how to use things
And last but not least, the majority of the benefits that you can read about on each framework's site
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