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barebones

A lightweight and skeletal WordPress boilerplate theme for HTML5 and beyond. Great as a starting point with powerful features to encourage rapid development for most projects.

Features

  • Reset, normalisation and base font/form styles
  • Adaptive at certain breakpoints and responsive through the middle
  • Sass powered - semantically named files all compiled into a single file
  • Semantic use of HTML5 elements, includes Google HTML5 shiv
  • WAI-ARIA role ready
  • Proprietary baseline and customisable, Sass generated horizontal grid
  • Comes pre-bundled with cached CDN version of jQuery
  • jQuery plugin agnostic
  • Basic index.php Loop template
  • Customised functions.php adding theme support for high customisation
  • Minimised HTTP requests for high Web Performance
  • Localised strings for multiple language support
  • Grunt.js integration - automatic image optimisation, Sass compiling and watching, and css minification

Installation

Dependencies

  • Node.js
  • Grunt.js

Clone/download the barebones repositories into your WordPress /wp-content/themes/ directory, then open /barebones/ in the command line and run npm install to install all of Grunt's dependancies.

Then run grunt to watch your Sass files.

WordPress Support

Compatible with WordPress 3.2 and above.

Browser Support

  • Internet Explorer 7.0+
  • Firefox 3.0+
  • Safari 4.0+
  • Chrome 14.0+
  • Opera 10.0+

Roadmap

  • Phase out Internet Explorer 7 support
  • Refactor CSS using box-sizing: border-box