A lightweight and skeletal WordPress boilerplate theme for HTML5 and beyond. There's lots of these out there but most themes include lots of bloat and files which you might not necessarily need, so I thought I'd create my own which is great as a starting point with powerful features to encourage rapid development for most projects.
- Reset, normalisation and base font/form styles
- Sass powered - semantically named files all compiled into a single file
- Semantic use of HTML5 elements, includes Google HTML5 shiv
- WAI-ARIA role ready
- Comes pre-bundled with cached CDN version of jQuery
- jQuery plugin agnostic
- Basic index.php Loop template
- Customised functions.php adding theme support for high customisation
- Minimised HTTP requests for high Web Performance
- Localised strings for multiple language support
- Grunt automatic image optimisation, Sass compiling and watching, css minification and live reload support
- Use of Browserify to modularise the JavaScript structure and stop those huge, spaghetti script files!
Clone/download the barebones repositories into your WordPress /wp-content/themes/ directory and run the following to install all of this project's Grunt dependencies:
$ npm install
Then run grunt to execute the default tasks: compiling sass/js and creating the watcher.
To aid performance, the image-centric tasks aren't run by default and can be executed by running:
$ grunt img
Compatible with WordPress 3.2 and above, but always use the latest version.
- Internet Explorer 8.0+
- Firefox 3.0+
- Safari 4.0+
- Chrome 14.0+
- Opera 10.0+
Organisation of Sass foldersSimple grid frameworkOrganisation of JS- Investigate browserify issue