A basic boilerplate for WordPress theme development based on in-house standards at WPDevTools.
Boilerplate is not a framework, parent theme, or code library. It is not intented to be used as-is on a site (seriously - it's not very pretty without styling). Boilerplate is not a product intended to be purchased or sold, though we hope themes built with it are successful and sold. Boilerplate is not API laden - we choose to use WordPress core functionality rather than rewriting everything from scratch. It's not legacy code, dumped on the public and forgotten. Boilerplate is not just another WordPress theme.
Boilerplate is a fully functional, Theme Check tested WordPress theme that helps jump-start your theme development process. It is designed to help web professionals by providing boilerplate code for all of the core functionality in WordPress plus support for many popular theme elements not included in the WordPress API, all in a clean, well documented package. Developers can reuse demonstration and placeholder code to quickly build complicated theme components like option pages and threaded comment blocks. Boilerplate uses the GPLv2 license, so developers can modify and redistribute the code without worrying about complicated licensing schemes.
- Simple HTML5 markup makes for faster initial theme builds
- Up-to-date HTML5 Boilerplate integration
- Modernizr integration
- SASS / SCSS source with compilation scripts
- Common mixins included, but works well with Compass
- Many editable CSS attributes are set using variables, making for quick theme customization
- Clean code
- Simple to configure demo widget support, and menus
- Theme options use the Settings API, with functional and documented demo code in place
- Internationalized with support for multilingual plugins
- Modernizr http://modernizr.github.com/Modernizr/
- jQuery ColorPicker http://belelros.github.com/jQuery-ColorPicker/
- WPDevTools Core
- WPDevTools Theme
More to come!
Licensed under the GNU General Public License.