_s
Hi. I'm a starter theme called _s, or underscores, if you like. I'm a theme meant for hacking so don't use me as a Parent Theme. Instead try turning me into the next, most awesome, WordPress theme out there. That's what I'm here for. (by Automattic)
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. (by digitoimistodude)
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| _s | air-light | |
|---|---|---|
| 89 | 13 | |
| 10,877 | 884 | |
| 0.3% | 2.4% | |
| 0.0 | 8.8 | |
| 4 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| CSS | SCSS | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
_s
Posts with mentions or reviews of _s.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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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?
air-light
Posts with mentions or reviews of air-light.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-11.
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is underscores still a good start theme
I did the same a year ago, and ended up with air-light theme https://airwptheme.com/
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Is Gutenberg now able to let me build any UI I want?
With this naked theme u can define all blocks you want! https://airwptheme.com/
- Air-light | The best modern WordPress starter theme
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Wordpress starter/skeleton theme?
Air Light is great. https://github.com/digitoimistodude/air-light
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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?
So, can you elaborate on which devices it is not accessible and how? Just quickly tested out with OnePlus 8T and seems to work. Sounds like a bug have emerged for some device then. Please tell me more about the problem or even better, open an issue and we'll look into it! https://github.com/digitoimistodude/air-light/issues
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The popular Underscores starter theme seems to be dead, what to use instead?
Air light theme https://github.com/digitoimistodude/air-light
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Building my first wordpress theme, how do i do it?
Regarding theme development: If you want to develop a 'classic' WordPress theme, I would base it on a Starter theme such as Underscores (underscores.me), Dude Air-Light (https://github.com/digitoimistodude/air-light ) or Sage (https://roots.io/sage/ ), which helps prevent common mistakes.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing _s and air-light you can also consider the following projects:
understrap - Underscores + Bootstrap = Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.
tailpress - TailPress is a minimal boilerplate theme for WordPress using Tailwind CSS.
sage - WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and a modern development workflow
themes - Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
wd_s - A starter theme from WebDevStudios.
shopify-bare - Shopify starter theme that provides Javascript modules(ES6 and node_modules), tree-shaking, Live Reloading/ Hot module reloading, Tailwind Css w\ nesting & imports purges unused CSS, minify your built files, compress your images, and use quick commands to develop easier.
timber - Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine
stage - WIP: WordPress Theme Framework based on Roots Sage
tailpress - A Tailwind CSS enabled Underscores theme