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Understanding WordPress Starter Themes
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WordPress Starter Themes are important for custom WordPress web development. Above all, they put developer experience first and challenge the status quo of best practices. We discuss the differences between a developer starter theme and a multi-purpose theme, and why using a starter theme can give you a big head start in your custom theme development to achieve better results.
Highlights
0:00 Intro
2:44 Multipurpose vs. Starter Themes
5:21 Benefits of Starter Themes
8:34 Approaches to Starter Themes
16:03 Popular Starter Themes
17:44 What makes a good Starter Theme?
20:40 The future of themes
24:13 Why we build Flynt
26:52 Gutenberg redefined themes
31:06 Challenging the status quo
33:37 Better developer experiences
Links
Flynt: https://flyntwp.com/
underscores: https://underscores.me/
Sage: https://roots.io/sage/
Episode w/ Jared Novack (Timber): https://youtu.be/c3GlhhwpKRo
Popular Starter Themes: https://github.com/topics/wordpress-starter-theme
Episode about Gutenberg: https://youtu.be/m-nLuvchssg
WordPress block hydration experiments: https://github.com/WordPress/block-hydration-experiments/discussions/131
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