WordPress Starter Theme

Version: 2.6.7

Contributors:

Matt Banks ( @mattbanks / kernelcreativemedia.com / mattbanks.me )

Summary

WordPress Starter Theme for use as a starting template for building custom themes. Uses Compass/SCSS, HTML5 Boilerplate 4 with Modernizr and Normalize.css. Tested with WordPress 3.4 - 3.5.

Usage

Rename folder to your theme name and begin development. Code as you will.

I use CodeKit for Compass/SCSS compiling, but feel free to use whatever app or command line tool you prefer. LiveReload and Grunt are also great tools for compiling SCSS.

• Compile scss/style.scss to style.css (defined in config.rb for Compass)
• Compile js/plugins.js to js/plugins.min.js
• Compile js/main.js to js/main.min.js
• ??
• Profit

Features

1. Normalized stylesheet for cross-browser compatibility using Normalize.css version 2 (IE8+ only)
2. Easy to customize
3. Flexible grid from Chris Coyier
4. Media Queries for mobile and tablets ready to populate
5. Removed comments from pages
6. Compass & SCSS with plenty of mixins ready to go
7. Much much more

Suggested Plugins

• Use Google Libraries
• WordPress SEO by Yoast
• Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast
• W3 Total Cache
• Gravity Forms

Changelog

Version 2.6.7

• Fix remove_menu_page to trigger on admin_menu instead of admin_init

Version 2.6.6

• Add grid column sizes I typically use, general code cleanup

Version 2.6.5

• Fix calls for favicon and apple-touch-icon in header
• Remove older IE conditional comments since I don't support IE7 and below
• Change chromeframe call to include IE7

Version 2.6.4

• Clean up footer dynamic_sidebar() call
• Add comment blocks for template parts
• Add functions to remove dashboard widgets, remove admin menu pages, reorder admin menu
• Include add_image_size if needed in init

Version 2.6.3

• Fix text selection bg and color not pulling from variables

Version 2.6.2

• Move border-box from _grid.scss to _global.scss
• Add border-box support for pseudo elements, because it makes the world a better place

Version 2.6.1

• Fix broken call in sidebar.php
• Properly translate widget titles

Version 2.6

• Break functions out into their own included files
• Register style before enqueue
• Redo comments template based on Underscores Theme
• Added required classes to _posts.scss to remember to style them
• Broke register_sidebar() out of loop
• Add support for custom-header, custom-background, editor-style.css, content_width
• Add GPL license info to style.scss
• Add function to remove query strings from static resources
• Remove shortlink from wp_head
• Ran theme through Theme Check plugin to verify things were in order

Version 2.5

• remove jQuery loading from Google CDN. Use Google Libraries plugin is a better option while using version of jQuery in WordPress Core
• cleaned up functions.php and made it more robust
• Moved index, single and page displays out to template parts
• Properly enqueue stylesheet in functions.php instead of manually in header.php
• Updated social network buttons to latest code
• Renamed jquery.functions.js to main.js
• Add flexible grid SCSS
• Updated to HTML5 Boilerplate 4
• Updated to Normalize.css 2
• Updated to Modernizr 2.6.2
• Include @media bubbling mixins, via Chris Coyier
• Other bug fixes and changes

Version 2.1

• added compass with config.rb
• removed mixins covered by compass

Version 2.0

• added SCSS as preprocessor files
• upgraded modernizr to 2.5.2
• upgraded jQuery to 1.7.2
• renamed script.js to jquery.functions.js
• functions.php points to minified versions of plugins.js and jquery.functions.js
• removed unneeded code in functions.php
• cleaned up header.php and footer.php
• added google +1 button to social buttons

Version 1.0

• initial version

Credits

Without these projects, this WordPress Starter Theme wouldn't be where it is today.

• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Normalize.css
• Blank WordPress Theme by Digging Into WordPress
• SASS / SCSS
• Compass
• Don't Overthink It Grids
• Underscores Theme