WordPress Basic Starter Theme

When designing WordPress sites it’s customary to start from a theme. Starting from scratch would be absurd and a waste of time. However, starting from the right theme is important. Over the years, I’ve looked at many themes and I’ve come up with my minimal bare bones theme, which I’ve called the BLM Basic Theme.

I originally created it for my students in the Electronic Media Design Program at Langara, but I thought I would share it with everyone.

I’ve uploaded my theme on github and I’m now offering it in two flavours. Standard old school HTML and HTML5. Feel free to  grab the one you like and let me know your thoughts, comments and or suggestions.

Please note that this theme was designed to be used for building custom themes. If you were looking to create a theme to be added to the WordPress repository, this might not be the best theme to start with.

You can also see a demo of the site here.