Journey into underscores

Talk given at WordCamp Manchester

Transcript

1. A JOURNEY INTO UNDERSCORES
2. @karmatosed
3. The trouble With Bears
5. The trouble with starter themes The trouble with Bears
7. ONCE UPON A TIME
8. “A 1000-HOUR HEAD START: INTRODUCING THE _S THEME” Ian Stewart - themeshaper.com/2012/02/13/introducing-the-underscores-theme/
9. “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/
10. Underscores _s
11. built on Underscores
13. Getting Underscores
14. underscores.me
15. Github.Com/Automattic/_S
16. 4,181 Weekly 15,850 4 Weeks 159,421 Yearly. 228,609 Started tracking Sep 5, 2012. underscores.me
17. 591 commits 71 contributors 1,223 forks github.com/automattic/_s
21. 1,223 forks
23. https://github.com/MichaelArestad/th_s https://github.com/sabreuse/sassy_s/ https://github.com/Automattic/_s/pull/410 SASS Underscores
24. Inside Underscores
27. - / - 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
28. - Reset.css - Basic Typography (rems) - Basic html elements - Basic WordPress classes - Form elements - Navigation (including toggle) - Infinite scroll
29. - Content width - Setup function - Widgets (one block) - Enqueue scripts/style - Link in customizer, jetpack, 
 extras, template-tags
30. underscores psa
31. “Don’t Update Your Theme (From _s)” Konstantin Obenland - themeshaper.com/2013/10/11/dont-update-your-theme/
32. “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
33. Thanks, any questions? speakerdeck/tammielis/journey-into-underscores/ @karmatosed