WordPress Starter Theme

Version: 2.6.7

Contributors:

Matt Banks ( @mattbanks / kernelcreativemedia.com / mattbanks.me )

Summary

WordPress Starter Theme for use as a starting template for building custom themes. Uses Compass/SCSS, HTML5 Boilerplate 4 with Modernizr and Normalize.css. Tested with WordPress 3.4 - 3.5.

Usage

Rename folder to your theme name and begin development. Code as you will.

I use CodeKit for Compass/SCSS compiling, but feel free to use whatever app or command line tool you prefer. LiveReload and Grunt are also great tools for compiling SCSS.

Compile scss/style.scss to style.css (defined in config.rb for Compass)
Compile js/plugins.js to js/plugins.min.js
Compile js/main.js to js/main.min.js
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Profit

Features

Normalized stylesheet for cross-browser compatibility using Normalize.css version 2 (IE8+ only)
Easy to customize
Flexible grid from Chris Coyier
Media Queries for mobile and tablets ready to populate
Removed comments from pages
Compass & SCSS with plenty of mixins ready to go
Much much more

Suggested Plugins

Changelog

Version 2.6.7

Fix remove_menu_page to trigger on admin_menu instead of admin_init

Version 2.6.6

Add grid column sizes I typically use, general code cleanup

Version 2.6.5

Fix calls for favicon and apple-touch-icon in header
Remove older IE conditional comments since I don't support IE7 and below
Change chromeframe call to include IE7

Version 2.6.4

Clean up footer dynamic_sidebar() call
Add comment blocks for template parts
Add functions to remove dashboard widgets, remove admin menu pages, reorder admin menu
Include add_image_size if needed in init

Version 2.6.3

Fix text selection bg and color not pulling from variables

Version 2.6.2

Move border-box from _grid.scss to _global.scss
Add border-box support for pseudo elements, because it makes the world a better place

Version 2.6.1

Fix broken call in sidebar.php
Properly translate widget titles

Version 2.6

Break functions out into their own included files
Register style before enqueue
Redo comments template based on Underscores Theme
Added required classes to _posts.scss to remember to style them
Broke register_sidebar() out of loop
Add support for custom-header, custom-background, editor-style.css, content_width
Add GPL license info to style.scss
Add function to remove query strings from static resources
Remove shortlink from wp_head
Ran theme through Theme Check plugin to verify things were in order

Version 2.5

remove jQuery loading from Google CDN. Use Google Libraries plugin is a better option while using version of jQuery in WordPress Core
cleaned up functions.php and made it more robust
Moved index, single and page displays out to template parts
Properly enqueue stylesheet in functions.php instead of manually in header.php
Updated social network buttons to latest code
Renamed jquery.functions.js to main.js
Add flexible grid SCSS
Updated to HTML5 Boilerplate 4
Updated to Normalize.css 2
Updated to Modernizr 2.6.2
Include @media bubbling mixins, via Chris Coyier
Other bug fixes and changes

Version 2.1

added compass with config.rb
removed mixins covered by compass

Version 2.0

added SCSS as preprocessor files
upgraded modernizr to 2.5.2
upgraded jQuery to 1.7.2
renamed script.js to jquery.functions.js
functions.php points to minified versions of plugins.js and jquery.functions.js
removed unneeded code in functions.php
cleaned up header.php and footer.php
added google +1 button to social buttons

Version 1.0

initial version

Credits

Without these projects, this WordPress Starter Theme wouldn't be where it is today.

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