timber VS understrap

Use Timber for templating https://github.com/timber/timber

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!

Would just drop underscore and go for https://github.com/timber/timber with their starter theme.

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.

Timber or Sage as you prefer !

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.

Ya know, one more thing you might want to just look through: Timber/Timber.

Your best bet are starter themes using the Twig templating language which is similar to the templating languages you may already know.

Timber : https://timber.github.io/docs/

A free theme that I like is Understrap (https://understrap.com/). It has single post templates. You can easily customize the templates in a child theme. I believe most themes have single post templates but Understrap's php is easy to modify, along with the html and css.

They got bought out in 2021, not a good idea. e.g. https://github.com/understrap/understrap/issues/1258

I really like Understrap for a starter theme (https://understrap.com/). Using a child theme it's possible to create custom page and post templates, add widget areas, and so forth. It's free, both theme and child theme, and uses Bootstrap 4 framework.

understrap is an option if you want to Bootstrap things... https://understrap.com/

There are out-of-the-box solutions that we can use to create a bare-bones WP theme, that only has a basic skeleton. Some of the places where we can create such themes are Underscores, UnderStrap, and Bones.

I'm a developer, so I tend to start from a really blank slate. https://understrap.com/ https://underscores.me/ https://www.wordpressify.co/

I like using Understrap theme as my base (https://understrap.com/). The theme uses Bootstrap 4 as its framework. It's easy to change/add css to get what I want. Creating custom page templates is easy. Adding widget areas is easy. Modifying or adding to the php code isn't hard. The theme is free as is the child theme.

I recommend, https://underscores.me/ or https://understrap.com/ Personally I don't like Elementor or any theme that has a bunch of build in editing tools and such.