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WordPress

Arturo Goicochea
Arturo Goicochea
8,077 Points
Posted by Arturo Goicochea
Arturo Goicochea
8,077 Points

Can anyone recommend a good "starter" / "Blank slate" Wordpress theme based on Foundation or Bootstrap?

I want to create Wordpress pages using a framework. Prefer Foundation (for the SASS) but bootstrap works too.

Thanks ins advance!

4 Answers

Tim Herbert
Tim Herbert
8,634 Points
Tim Herbert
Tim Herbert
8,634 Points

I develop in a variety of IDE's Coda 2 on my Macbook, and Dreamweaver on my PC just for the easy access ftp upload keyboard shortcut. Also use Codepen.io to play with front end stuff, and Sublime Text 2 as its incredible. I plan on using Sublime Text 2 when I have the time to learn git-ftp. So I can just deploy from git.

Git has saved me tons of time debugging, I haven't taken Treehouses course but I'd suggest learning that if you haven't.

I'm all about building things myself. Others have another mindset. I had to deal with premade themes when I was interning and do "Theme Augmentations" for the clients. So it's not bad to learn that either as people want a cheap option and theme augmentation provides such a cheap alternative. However I try to dissuade people from going that route if at all possible.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Theme's are pretty easy to get going yourself. Why not just build your own blank theme and and add in whatever framework you want. You can probably have a functioning , blank theme with one of these frameworks attached in about 15 minutes time.

Arturo Goicochea
Arturo Goicochea
8,077 Points
Arturo Goicochea
Arturo Goicochea
8,077 Points

Ive found this: https://github.com/olefredrik/foundationpress

I want something fast and that works reliably. A starter theme would help me since Im still not an expert at this. I took the Bootstrap wordpress theme course here which was awesome, but thought I would start with a starter theme just to be safe. Thoughts?

Tim Herbert
Tim Herbert
8,634 Points
Tim Herbert
Tim Herbert
8,634 Points

If you haven't checked out underscores its decent. http://underscores.me/

Although I'm with Kevin its really pretty easy to make your own. It's been a bit of a challenge and some learning curve on some things but I have been building a project for a client I started off of the bootstrap / wordpress tutorial. I just used that as a starting point and continued to build on it.

Arturo Goicochea
Arturo Goicochea
8,077 Points
Arturo Goicochea
Arturo Goicochea
8,077 Points

OK, you guys convinced me. However, Ive read somewhere that its best to develop themes using Terminal rather than downloading them. Any thoughts, guidance on that front?