Starkers v4.0

Checking out Starkers for a solid starting framework – it doesn’t strike me as a particularly “bare bones” template, and wondered if anyone had experience working with it. Running a check in Theme Check on a clean installation shows dozens of REQUIRED notices and WARNINGS. Doesn’t seem like a great starting point to build out a independent framework when you have to immediately address a bunch of issues from the start.

What were you using to build your themes before?

I’ve used Starkers to build custom websites from ground up, and it’s really good for that purpose. However it’ll be too much work to build it into a custom framework for commercial themes. Better to just start from scratch.

I turned http://underscores.me into my own little personal tool (didn’t have to do much as it was already done for you, I just went over every line of code and organized it to better suit my dev/design process, saved me so much time as sometimes I spend more time developing than designing), it comes with everything you need and a few cool extras (like Keyboard navigation for image attachment templates).

SyamilMJ said
What were you using to build your themes before? I’ve used Starkers to build custom websites from ground up, and it’s really good for that purpose. However it’ll be too much work to build it into a custom framework for commercial themes. Better to just start from scratch.

I was just experimenting with the idea of using a different framework. I generally work with a framework I’ve built, using the Skeleton grid framework for the baseline. But I try to experiment with different approaches after each theme is done.