WordPress Skeleton Theme

Download Skeleton Theme 1.0 (zip)

The Skeleton Theme for WordPress is a completely cleared theme to allow a web designer to build a WordPress theme from scratch but without creating the basic layout and files.

The WordPress Skeleton Theme is about saving time by making WordPress theme development more streamlined.

Future

• Remove CSS reset and improve listing all possible elements to style
• More comments in the style.css file
• Add all capable theme files with description in file
• Documentation on each file

Version 1.0 – 12/28/2010

• Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset with body { 100% }
• DIVs: container, header, content, sidebar, footer
• 2 menus, one in the header and one in the footer
• Theme files:
  • 404.php
  • archive.php
  • category.php
  • comments.php
  • footer.php
  • functions.php
  • header.php
  • index.php
  • page.php
  • search.php
  • sidebar.php
  • single.php
  • style.css
• “images” folder
• functions.php – registers sidebar as a widget area, and header and footer menus