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secondtruth/startmin
====================

An admin dashboard template for Bootstrap

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Startmin
========

[](#startmin)

**Startmin** is an open source, admin dashboard template for [Bootstrap 3](http://getbootstrap.com/) originally created by [Start Bootstrap](http://startbootstrap.com/).

You can find a demo [here](http://secondtruth.github.io/startmin).

Alternatives
------------

[](#alternatives)

- **[Startfront](https://github.com/secondtruth/startfront)** – Multipurpose, full website template for Bootstrap 5 (includes 10 unique HTML pages)

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Navbar with left and right menu + Sidebar
- FontAwesome Icons (Version 4.7)
- Charts and sortable Data Tables
- Dashboard including nice Info Widgets
- Tabbed Panels with optional Dropdown
- Social Login Buttons using FontAwesome Icons

### Differences to SB Admin 2

[](#differences-to-sb-admin-2)

- Hero-sized Dashboard Info Widgets
- Tabbed Panels with optional Dropdown
- Left Menu in Top Navbar (optional)
- Top Navbar is black 🖤
- Up-to-date dependencies

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

To use this template, choose one of the following options to get started:

- Download the latest release as ZIP file from GitHub
- Clone this repository from GitHub
- Install using [NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/)
- Install using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org)

### Install via NPM

[](#install-via-npm)

To install the template using NPM, run the following command and you will get the latest version:

```
$ npm i startmin

```

### Install via Composer

[](#install-via-composer)

[Install Composer](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-osx) if you don't already have it present on your system.

To install the template using Composer, run the following command and you will get the latest version:

```
$ composer require secondtruth/startmin

```

Bugs and Issues
---------------

[](#bugs-and-issues)

Have a bug or an issue with this template? [Open a new issue](https://github.com/secondtruth/startmin/issues) here on GitHub.

Contributors
------------

[](#contributors)

Many thanks to [Ed Preston](https://github.com/epreston) (@epreston) for [helping out](https://github.com/secondtruth/startmin/commits?author=epreston)!

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

**Startmin** is based on [Start Bootstrap](http://startbootstrap.com/)'s **[SB Admin 2 (Legacy Version)](http://startbootstrap.com/theme/sb-admin-2/)**. Start Bootstrap was created and is maintained by **[David Miller](https://davidmiller.io/)**.

This template is based on the [Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/) framework created by [Mark Otto](https://twitter.com/mdo) and [Jacob Thorton](https://twitter.com/fat). It makes use of the [FontAwesome](http://fontawesome.io/) icons created by [Dave Gandy](https://twitter.com/davegandy).

Many thanks to the snippet contributors at [Bootsnipp](http://bootsnipp.com/).

Copyright and License
---------------------

[](#copyright-and-license)

Copyright 2013 – 2023 Christian Neff &amp; Start Bootstrap LLC.

Code released under the [MIT](https://github.com/secondtruth/startmin/blob/master/LICENSE) license.

###  Health Score

41

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FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1312 days

Total

3

Last Release

1107d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/82268b2432ab90f14c62445938bc3cd1340dc66e0463035df57891826b418016?d=identicon)[secondtruth](/maintainers/secondtruth)

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Top Contributors

[![secondtruth](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/416441?v=4)](https://github.com/secondtruth "secondtruth (32 commits)")[![epreston](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/347224?v=4)](https://github.com/epreston "epreston (9 commits)")[![ademkocamaz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12304649?v=4)](https://github.com/ademkocamaz "ademkocamaz (1 commits)")

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Tags

admin-dashboardbootstrapfontawesome-iconshtml-templatewebtemplatethemedashboardbackendadmin

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