A Starter Theme for WordPress by Automattic

underscores.me

50 points·benackles··10 comments

TL;DR: underscores is a GPL Wordpress theme that makes a good base for building your own Wordpress theme.

I've tried to use _s for a project and it was very bloated. This looks much better although what the generator only does is to rename the theme.

Hopefully this becomes the official starter theme with a much more powerful generator to support it.

It's actually the exact same thing ;) the generator simply takes care of all the search and replace you have to do to get started with _s, nothing more, nothing less :)

I think that Toolbox (also from Automattic) is the best minimalist theme that you can use for building a theme from scratch.

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/toolbox

_s is actually a fork of Toolbox. Ref: https://github.com/Automattic/_s/commit/edfeccc2557e899cf0b8...

sigh... css reset, once again.

What is the problem with css resets?

normalize.css[1] has become more popular than resetting everything for several reasons[2],

[1] http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6887336/what-is-the-diffe...

I'm not sure that being less popular than normalize is worth of a sigh. A reset is still better than nothing.

I completely disagree with that. I will take a standard empty css file over a reset any day. Resets will end up adding so much more work.

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