The framework itself is lean, secure, SEO friendly, future proof and highly customizable. It is designed to always be used with a child theme. The use of WordPress theme frameworks may ease theme development by reducing the volume of work which may be needed in creating a backbone for your theme (usually by using PHP and WordPress Template Tags).
Some of the widgets add extra functionality to your blog, while others relieve you of the pain of coding and the danger of messing your theme files. Here, I have listed some of the best and free wordpress framework widgets for your wordpress blogs. While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that I missed some other great resources. Feel free to share it with us.
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1. Tina MVC
Tina MVC is a WordPress framework that allows you to develop plugins, shortcodes and widgets.
2. Pods
Pods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields.
3. Admin Page Framework
It provides plugin and theme developers with easier means of creating option pages. Extend the library class and pass your arrays that define the form elements to the predefined class methods.
4. Wp App Studio
Wp App Studio is easy to learn and use design and development tool for creating fully featured custom plugins.
5. Gantry Template Framework
Gantry is a comprehensive set of building blocks to enable the rapid development and realization of a design into a flexible and powerful web platform theme.
6. Genesis Toolbar Extras
This plugin adds useful admin settings links and massive resources for Genesis Framework and its ecosystem to the WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar.
7. Toolbar Buddy
This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for iThemes Builder and popular iThemes/PluginBuddy Plugins to the WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar.
8. Pure Web Brilliant’s Base Framework
Framework required for all Pure Web Brilliant plug-ins, themes and CMS features.
9. Framework Reloaded
Allows other plugins to use WordPress Plugin Framework Reloaded. Made for plugin developers.
10. Thesis Toolbar
This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for the Thesis Theme/Framework to the WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar.
