Dion Hulse a.k.a. DD32 who is a very active WordPress contributor created a ticket in Trac about eight weeks ago outlining his proposal for a new theme to be based on the current WordPress codebase. It’s long been known that a majority of themes that are created for WordPress end up using Kubrick as the base theme. In this day in age, that is not such a good idea as this leads to themes that are not easy to customize, little documentation, and possibly ugly code.
DD32’s proposal for a new base theme contains the following suggestions:
Uses clean markup
Has a basic style included, Which is designed to be replaced.
The default style should be able to be used by itself, But it should be in such a way that its simple to be customized
Doesn’t rely upon fixed width styling, or fixed background images
Uses limited JavaScript
Uses the Theme […]
Original post by Jeff Chandler
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