Underscores - One theme to rule them all

Talk given at WordCamp Bournemouth about _s.

Transcript

1. One theme to rule them all
2. S UNDERSCORES — A STARTER THEME FOR EVERYONE.
3. @jacklenox
4. WHO NEEDS A STARTER THEME?
5. © Christopher Verdier
10. ENTER, UNDERSCORES
11. What is Underscores? • It is everything, and yet nothing… • It is all-encompassing, and all non-encompassing. • It is, and it is not.
12. Underscores • Essentially no styling. • Very little JavaScript. • But it does have all the little things that you do need, like a way of managing nested navigation! • Accessibility, keyboard accessible, skip to content etc.
13. – Ian Stewart “A 1000-hour head start. That’s the approximate number of design and development hours you get for free every time you use it in a project. Weeks and weeks of refinement by dozens of WordPress theme experts over several years that you don’t have to do.”
14. – Konstantin Obenland “Underscores is a starter theme. It is meant to be worked with, tweaked, and styled. It is not a framework or a parent theme to be extended. It is supposed to become a theme of its own, when finished.”
15. Pedigree S Twenty Eleven Twenty Ten Twenty Twelve Twenty Thirteen Toolbox Twenty Fourteen Further
17. Underscores… • Minimal. • Familiar. • WordPress coding standards and best practices. • Accessible.
24. WHO’S USING UNDERSCORES?
25. 300,000 DOWNLOADS STARTED TRACKING ON 5 SEPTEMBER 2012
33. UNDERSCORES…
34. Underscores on GitHub • 72 contributors
 (from 16 countries) • 612 commits • 1,260 forks
37. Philosophy • No version number. • Coding standards and WordPress best practices. • As lean as possible.
38. – Ian Stewart “We’re much more conservative with our _s goals and dreams than most people wanting to contribute.”
39. The future of _s • Sass + Grunt/Gulp + Timber/Mustache? • Modular • Feature picker
44. THANK YOU! ANY QUESTIONS? UNDERSCORES.ME @UNDERSCORESME GITHUB.COM/AUTOMATTIC/_S ! ! @JACKLENOX
45. Appendix: WP-API and Themes • WP-API (WordPress REST API). • Slated for inclusion in WordPress 4.1. • An exciting time for WordPress.
48. The next generation? • AJAX (AJAJ). • Backbone/Angular/ Ember. • No page reloads. • Full abstraction. • Better UX.
51. Magic…
52. FIND OUT MORE… GITHUB.COM/WP-API/WP-API