It is a WordPress theme with all the functionality of a typical WordPress theme but almost none of the styling. The idea is that when starting a new theme, it is far easier to use this as a base then a theme that is already finished and styled.
- Things are as semantically marked up as can be for a starter theme.
- It's HTML5.
- The sidebar is widget-ready.
- Page titles are optimized for best SEO and readability/usability.
- Functions.php file provides some cool extra features.
- Has some starter CSS ready to go, more about that below.
- Uses
includesfor some key things, like under-title meta data and forward/back navigation, that are very common places for redundant code in themes.
As you can see from the screenshot above, the CSS is pretty barren, but not entirely! Here are some things the CSS is set up for:
- Includes a .group selector for the new clearfix
- Has basic toolbox and WordPress-standard CSS classes.
- Includes standard typography-related selectors.
- CSS for threaded comments is in there, but light on actual styling.
- Both screen and print styles included in single stylesheet. Print styles optimized for generic nice printing.
Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr from DigWP.com