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Journey into underscores

Journey into underscores

Talk given at WordCamp Manchester

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Tammie Lister

June 27, 2014
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  1. “A 1000-HOUR HEAD START: INTRODUCING THE _S THEME” Ian Stewart

    - themeshaper.com/2012/02/13/introducing-the-underscores-theme/
  2. “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. ” Ian Stewart - themeshaper.com/2012/02/13/introducing-the-underscores-theme/
  3. - / - template parts: content, content none, content single…

    - header, footer, index - default templates: 404, archive, search… - comments - sidebar (with widget area) - functions.php - readme.md - rtl.css - screenshot.png (blank) - style.css - inc/ - custom header - customizer - jetpack - helpful: tempate tags, extras - js/ - customizer, navigation, skip-link-focus - languages/ - .pot, readme - layouts/ - content-sidebar.css - sidebar-content.css
  4. - Reset.css - Basic Typography (rems) - Basic html elements

    - Basic WordPress classes - Form elements - Navigation (including toggle) - Infinite scroll
  5. - Content width - Setup function - Widgets (one block)

    - Enqueue scripts/style - Link in customizer, jetpack, 
 extras, template-tags
  6. “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.” Konstantin Obenland - wptavern.com/introduction-to-underscores-a-wordpress-starter-theme-with-konstantin-obenland