Title: CSS framework selection when developing a WordPress theme
Last modified: August 4, 2023

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# CSS framework selection when developing a WordPress theme

 *  [dilhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dilhan/)
 * (@dilhan)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-framework-selection-when-developing-a-wordpress-theme/)
 * Hi,
   I’m New to WordPress Development, I’m developing a custom theme for a client,
   I initially chosen bootstrap as the CSS framework and, however I rewrite the 
   code and switched to tailwind since it only added classes we use, however now
   client needs woocommerce integration and style changes a lot, but the problem
   is when adding new css classes, it needs to be run on tailwind compiler to (whatever
   it calls), that adds extra work since I’ve to modify it in html template files,
   then update WordPress stylesheet, but if I’ve used bootstrap, it’s a matter of
   just adding a class. Also the other thing is, some plugins inherit styles from
   the theme and since what tailwind adds very minimum, some plugin output design
   is not that good, so have to add lot of custom css in that case, also if modify
   the output using hooks, I feel adding lot of unnecessary code when just to modify
   CSS or inject tailwind classes into plugin output.So my question is, is Tailwind
   a good framework for WordPress and WooCommerce theme development? I did some 
   research on Youtube, google and etc, but no one seems to be talking about it 
   much. If you take a look at themes on Themeforest and etc pretty much all the
   WooCommerce and WP theme are based of Bootstrap.Now I’m in doubt of I made the
   wrong decision by choosing, Tailwind. ( I love tailwind btw as a framework and
   how flexible it is when coding fronted)
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by [dilhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dilhan/).

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-framework-selection-when-developing-a-wordpress-theme/#post-16947982)
 * For all the reasons you’ve set forth, Bootstrap would be the way to go. As much
   as Tailwind is great and what you prefer, you’ve also explained why it’d be a
   poor choice. I think you already knew what the right choice would be. You just
   didn’t like the conclusion and needed confirmation before reluctantly switching
   back to Bootstrap 🙂

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