wp-blank

wp-blank is yet another WordPress starter theme with all necessary features of WordPress for modern websites.

Note: This WordPress theme is only a starting point for your own theme. It only makes use of basic and some advanced features of WordPress and modern webdevelopment.

Need help? Got questions? Found an error? Have an improvment? Feel free to get in touch or open an issue on GitHub: http://github.com/akamola/wp-blank

Features

WordPress

• 2 widget areas: sidebar, footer
  • See functions.php
  • Widget area token: wpblank-widgetarea-
• 1 menu in the header: primary
  • See functions.php
• Basic setup for theme support features
  • See functions.php
• Optimized markup for comments
  • Seperated sections for pingbacks/trackbacks and comments
  • See comments.php and functions.php
• Basic error 404 page
  • Edit 404.php
• is_subpage() function to check if a page is a subpage
  • See functions.php
• Translation ready (i18n)
• Theme token (for i18n, etc.): wpblank

HTML, CSS & Accessibility

• HTML 5
• Link to RSS feeds (for older blog nerds)
• CSS classes on the BODY
  • See WordPress Codex: body_class()
• Blog title isn't linked on the homepage
• Use normalize.css (minified)
• Basic WIA-ARIA roles for better accessibility
• Quick jump link to the content area of a page (for better accessibility)
  • Hidden with CSS: #jumper { display: none; }

Responsive Design

• Basic respnsive design setup
• Responsive images in the content area

Social Media & SEO

• Favicon
  • Set your favicon in your root folder: /favicon.ico
• Apple Touch Icons
  • See assets folder
• Microsoft Application Tile
  • Set tile color in the header.php
• Pavatar
  • See assets folder
• Schema.org meta data for blog posts

JavaScript

• Basic JavaScript file with jQuery setup
  • See app.js
• Enqueue app.js to use WordPress' jQuery
  • See functions.php
• Enqueue JavaScript in the footer of the website for better performance

Security

• Hide WordPress version by removing the generator meta tag
• Replace the default login error message to hide any information that could maybe used to crack into the system

Releases

1.2.0 (2019-10-24)

• Change the container element of wp_nav_menu to the HTML 5 element NAV, instead of the old DIV
• Change the main content wrapper element from DIV to the HTML 5 element MAIN
• Update normalize.css to version 8.0.1
• Minify the placeholder images again
• Update the README.md, try to make some points more understandable
• Update my e-mail address

1.1.0 (2016-01-27)

• Change theme token for i18n, function prefix, etc. from blanktheme to wpblank
• Remove archive page template
• Changed ID of the header menu from header to primary
• Replace widget area in the header with a native menu (also see previous point)
• Use is_home() instead of is_front_page() on the page title and site name for correct page title and site name linking even without static frontpage
• Encapsulate seperator for tags "," with a SPAN with the class sep
• Fix JavaScripts placement: now placed at the end of the HTML file for better page performance
• Fix hooks of add_action() for menus and widget areas in the functions.php

1.0.3 (2015-08-03)

• Refactoring, small enhancements and corrections

1.0.2 (2015-06-23)

• Small bug fixes and security enhancements

1.0.1 (2015-06-18)

• Small bug fixes and enhancements

1.0 (2015-05-10)

• Initial release
• Use normalize.css 3.0.2

Authors

• Arne Kamola arne@arne.xyz

License

GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0