Extensible
Alien Ship is meant to be a foundation on which to build, so it’s very child theme friendly. Most functions are pluggable, and the theme includes a number of hooks for you to customize your site.
Bootstrap
Alien Ship is fully integrated with Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript toolkit from Twitter. It’s a proven and solid toolkit with a lot of useful features, and they’re all right here in the Alien Ship theme.
Grid
Alien Ship is built on the Bootstrap 940px 12-column responsive grid, featuring both fixed and fluid layouts.
Responsive design
Alien Ship features a responsive design which looks good and scales according to screen resolution, providing a full-featured and consistent experience across a range of devices. Resize your browser window to see it in action.
Featured Posts
Alien Ship has a feature called Featured Posts, which is a good way to highlight your important content. It allows you to feature you content in an image slider using Bootstrap Carousel, and it also allows you to feature posts in a block grid.
Header Image
Support for a header image on all your pages. You can choose to have a single static image, or rotating images. Also, if a post or page has a featured image that’s large enough, it will always be displayed at the top of that page.
Menus
Alien Ship has three menus – Top, Main, and Bottom – and they are all responsive. Dropdowns work on click/touch instead of mouse hover, and menu elements adjust to touch-friendly sizes on mobile devices, providing a great experience on touch screen devices.
Page Templates
The theme includes four page templates: default with right sidebar, full-width with a sidebar at the bottom, full-width with no sidebar, and the Hero landing page template.
Shortcodes
Alien Ship has shortcode support for alerts, badges, buttons, featured posts slider, labels, login form, panels, and wells.
Theme Options
Alien Ship includes a Theme Options panel which allows you more control over the design of your site.