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_s | themes | |
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89 | 5 | |
10,877 | 815 | |
0.3% | 2.6% | |
0.0 | 9.7 | |
3 months ago | 5 days ago | |
CSS | CSS | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Your favorite WP theme for mobile speed?
I tried a lot of themes, in my experience GeneratePress is the fastest, unless you decide to go fully custom and go with _s (but it will be a lot of dev work).
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First site- custom theme or no?
If you've got dev chops in PHP, then Underscores is a good "starter" theme to build your theme off. It looks after a lot of the WP related stuff, letting you focus on the template/HTML/JS/CSS stuff.
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Is there any way to experiment with selfmade Wordpress themes without getting a subscription?
Just to add since your new to WordPress and want to save a bunch of time you can use this springboard of a theme that's designed to be turned into what you want and saves hours of time. Underscores
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What is the most absolutely basic, stripped down skeleton WP theme?
Underscores is likely your best bet.
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Starting a new website with a custom child theme. What's a good vanilla parent?
I would say underscores. I believe it’s by the Automattic team https://underscores.me
- Can you partially code in HTML/CSS/JS and then use Wordpress?
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I made my own WordPress Plugin! ( and I am proud ). Its about publishing markdown posts from a git repository to your blog. [PROMOTION]
I used PHP, JavaScript, and a little bit of Python. I think themes are pretty easy you should try out _s which is a theme template for WordPress and there are similar things for plugins. I learned from this youtube series which is really good -> Wordpress Plugin Developement.
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Best themes for WordPress site developers who can code?
Underscrores or GeneratePress.
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How to organize your css so it looks more readable? What does production css look like?
I ended up adopting an ITCSS inspired approach as a result of developing wordpress themes with underscores. You can see the current scss structure for starting a project with underscores here.
- Recommended bare bone WordPress theme to create your own theme from?
themes
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Can you recommend a starter WP template?
According to the maintainer of that, as you can see in the Q&A section on that page, they use a theme called "Varia" from WordPress's github as their starting point: https://github.com/Automattic/themes/tree/trunk/varia
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Creator of the open source WordPress starter theme Air-light here. Just noticed we have 376 stars on GitHub and some shares here in Reddit so decided to open a discussion about a starter theme: Do you like Air-light? Yes/no, why?
While I endorse any minimalistic block based approach, I don't think blockbase is nothing more than a bare bones as well. What bugged me the most in _s also bugs me in Blockbase - it has "too little of everyhing", it's less than minimum. It's better than "too much of everything" (which is the biggest issue with most of the WP themes out there) but it doesn't help. Also, in my personal opinion stey they still lack in SCSS quality-wise. While there's not a lots of code it's still too messy and complicated for my preferences. As a full on CSS guy with the most minimal approach I appreciate functional, fast yet working style sheet. You can see what I mean when you compare the button block in blockbase (here) and in Air-light (here).
- Any open Source WordPress sites I can view as an example?
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Which workflow is best for modern wordpress development?
If you want to tinker with the new stuff then check out Blockbase. It's basically the FSE centric replacement for the old underscores theme. Setup a local WP environment (e.g. DevKinsta or localwp) and clone the GH theme folder into your project.
What are some alternatives?
understrap - Underscores + Bootstrap = Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.
air-light - 💨 WordPress starter theme - designed to be minimal, ultra-lightweight (< 20 kB) and easy for all kinds of WordPress projects. 7+years/1000+hours of development and still updating daily! We prefer the original WordPress way of doing things so no strange templating languages or frameworks here.
tailpress - TailPress is a minimal boilerplate theme for WordPress using Tailwind CSS.
modus-themes
sage - WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and a modern development workflow
doom-emacs-config - Doom Emacs configuration finely tuned for "distraction-free' academic writing
wd_s - A starter theme from WebDevStudios.
witch-nvim - Witch is a neovim colorscheme switcher
timber - Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine
emacs-dashboard - An extensible emacs dashboard
tailpress - A Tailwind CSS enabled Underscores theme
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager