gilesa / wordpress-theme-skeleton

The starting place for every top-knotch WordPress theme

WordPress Theme Skeleton

To make a long story short, I hate repeating myself. A lot. Every time I sit down to build a WordPress theme for a client, I end out starting the exact same way. So I decided to make a WordPress Theme skeleton. Not only does this saves me hours of time, but after months of refinement, this skeleton has brought my client themes to a whole new level. Make sure to fork me! If you do, you get a cookie.

Download WordPress Theme Skeleton to get started.

Features

• Pre-built functions.php, header.php, footer.php, page.php, single.php, index.php, 404.php
• Out of the box iPhone / iPad CSS support (portrait and landscape). Just edit iPhone.css and iPad.css
• Additional meta-tags for Mobile Safari
• Included Apple Touch Icon (46x46)
• Included custom icon for site login screen
• jQuery plugin which adds OS, Browser name, and Version to body tag.
• jQuery plugin for marking current URL in links
• CSS Reset and Standard Attributes included
• All page types are available as Page / Post Templates.
• Additional body classes added to detect current browser
• Official support for wp-minify

Still in the works...

• Custom Theme Settings template
• Settings for adding Prototype, MooTools, dojo, and ExtCore (defaulting to jQuery of course)

What you need to know

Structure:

.container > #header + #content + #footer

Happy coding!