_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)
timber
Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine (by timber)
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| _s | timber | |
|---|---|---|
| 89 | 10 | |
| 10,877 | 5,431 | |
| 0.3% | 0.6% | |
| 0.0 | 9.2 | |
| 3 months ago | 13 days ago | |
| CSS | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
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?
timber
Posts with mentions or reviews of timber.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
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Modern Plugin Boilerplate - GIT + PHP8 + Composer
Use Timber for templating https://github.com/timber/timber
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Custom sites vs WordPress sites?
I’ve used timber and then built of their example theme. I can share a skeleton example of my base theme that incorporates vue and vite if you’re interested!
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Can I build a one-page Wordpress site using only ACF Pro?
Would just drop underscore and go for https://github.com/timber/timber with their starter theme.
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Laravel Developer Making Word Press Site
Finally, since Wordpress by default doesn't have a templating language you might be annoyed by mixing HTML/PHP for templates at first. I could recommend Timber to add Twig template support to your theme. It's helped me out a great deal in cleaning up messy intermixed presentation files.
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WordPress with external template engine
Timber or Sage as you prefer !
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The company I work for is migrating to Wordpress and I don’t know what to expect
ACF let you make all your custom fields and assign them literally anywhere. Timber brings Twig to Wordpress so you can have your views in twig files and your logic on php files and have a neat, modular, tidy, mantainable theme without having to deal with those mixed php/html nightmares you usually see.
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What influence does PHP have on wordpress and how much should i know it to make a site
Ya know, one more thing you might want to just look through: Timber/Timber.
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I want to code in Wordpress using HTML and CSS
Your best bet are starter themes using the Twig templating language which is similar to the templating languages you may already know.
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Clean blank wordpress theme for pure HTML/CSS/Bootstrap website?
Timber : https://timber.github.io/docs/
- Where do I go next with this error please?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing _s and timber 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
wd_s - A starter theme from WebDevStudios.
tailpress - A Tailwind CSS enabled Underscores theme
query-monitor-twig-profile - Displays Twig profiler output in Query Monitor
gutenberg - The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
CMB2 - CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind.