Frankie is a base WordPress theme built on HTML5 and Sass. It’s not meant as a parent theme but a quick-start base for WordPress website production. All the goodness a starter theme should have, but none of the fluff.
Download or fork Frankie on Github
Features
- Responsive base (I suggest adding Susy)
- Includes Modernizer for feature detection and cross-browser compatibility (development version)
- Mobile-friendly menu (example on this website!)
- Wigetized and custom menu ready
- Preconfigured for Compass (including moving style.css to template root once processed)
- Custom comments layout (through functions.php) and custom comment form (inc/respond.php)
- Some pre-populated HTML5 tags
- Post thumbnails and post format enabled
- Normalize CSS reset included (slightly customised)
- Scripts enqueued through functions.php
- Latest jQuery
- _wordpress.scss file for targeting WordPress generated elements
- Asynchronous Google Analytics script in place (just edit the ID)
- Not much else.
Setup
- Run a search for all terms ‘frankywp’. Replace with your theme name
- Move the config.rb file somewhere safe (your preprocessor may overwrite it)
- Set up the folder in your preprocessor of choice (i.e. Codekit)
- Replace the config.rb file
Changelog
v1.1
- Documentation update
- Added screenshot.png
- Removed compiling comments from _reset.scss
v1.0
- Initial Deployment