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Underscores - One theme to rule them all

Underscores - One theme to rule them all

Talk given at WordCamp Bournemouth about _s.

Jack Lenox

July 13, 2014
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  1. What is Underscores? • It is everything, and yet nothing…

    • It is all-encompassing, and all non-encompassing. • It is, and it is not.
  2. Underscores • Essentially no styling. • Very little JavaScript. •

    But it does have all the little things that you do need, like a way of managing nested navigation! • Accessibility, keyboard accessible, skip to content etc.
  3. – Ian Stewart “A 1000-hour head start. That’s the approximate

    number of design and development hours you get for free every time you use it in a project. Weeks and weeks of refinement by dozens of WordPress theme experts over several years that you don’t have to do.”
  4. – Konstantin Obenland “Underscores is a starter theme. It is

    meant to be worked with, tweaked, and styled. It is not a framework or a parent theme to be extended. It is supposed to become a theme of its own, when finished.”
  5. – Ian Stewart “We’re much more conservative with our _s

    goals and dreams than most people wanting to contribute.”
  6. Appendix: WP-API and Themes • WP-API (WordPress REST API). •

    Slated for inclusion in WordPress 4.1. • An exciting time for WordPress.
  7. The next generation? • AJAX (AJAJ). • Backbone/Angular/ Ember. •

    No page reloads. • Full abstraction. • Better UX.