Fernando Mateus
July 17 2009 @ 06:29PM #
Love it love it. Got a try it. Thx for sharing your work.
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Starkers grows up July 17 2009
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I’m happy to unveil the new version of Starkers, my bare-bones theme for WordPress. An update has been due for quite some time, but this isn’t just a compatibility release; Starkers has well and truly grown up.
Most importantly, it now has its own dedicated site (resize the browser window for the fun stuff, and view in Safari for the most CSS3 enhancements) rather than living in the occasional blog post. I’ll be investing a lot more time into the project from now on, so expect to see some big news on where Starkers is heading fairly soon. For now, though, hopefully you’ll be satisfied with the new version (it’s been re-written from the ground up, using the Default theme that ships with WordPress 2.8.1 as a starting point) and the more extensive information offered on the new site.
If you’d like to contribute to the Starkers project in any way, please do get in touch. Specifically, I’m looking for people who have some time to add support for threaded comments, increased accessibility (Al Stevens, I’m looking at you!), code indentation improvements, and any suggestions that will help make the theme better without becoming bloated. And of course I’m always happy to hear about any bugs you find.
Comments are open and I’d love to hear your feedback. Personally, I’m really excited about where Starkers is going to go, as I have some more cool developments on the way. Enjoy!
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Rich Clark
July 17 2009 @ 06:47PM #
Elliot,
I see you decided to strip out microformats on this (well kind of cos ‘hentry’ is still there) just wondered what made you do this? Do you not see any benefit in Microformats or just wanted it completely ‘Starkers’?
Overall though a great base for starting themes from.
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Vanilla Man
July 17 2009 @ 06:47PM #
I’ve seen some themes like this before under the high-sounding title “WordPress frameworks”, but i think it’s a bit overstated! :) Good job!
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Max Stanworth
July 17 2009 @ 07:18PM #
ive been waiting for this update , greatly appreciated taking the time to get it back up to speed. I prefer a barebones theme like this over a theme framework.
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Aaron Bazinet
July 17 2009 @ 07:26PM #
That’s fantastic! Thanks for providing such a valuable resource.
Cheers!
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Chris Wallace
July 17 2009 @ 07:41PM #
Nicely done. I use Thematic for most projects now, but need to check this one out, I’ve always heard great things but never really bothered to take a peek. You have forced me to do so, sir.
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Judson Collier
July 18 2009 @ 12:11AM #
Excellent. Have the perfect use for this for a client!
Thanks!
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Denis Onichshenko
July 20 2009 @ 08:55AM #
Wow, loving previous stalkers. You got me Inspired to make another wordpress theme from a scratch. Thanks, Elliot!
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Rich Kelly
July 21 2009 @ 05:17PM #
Your original Starkers them was a complete life saver when I jumped straight into the deep end of designing for wordpress. I’ll continue using this superb theme in the future, keep up the great work dude.
Rk
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Slobodan Manic
July 22 2009 @ 08:01PM #
Wow, thank you Elliot! The old Starkers has really helped me learn about Wordpress theme development, i simply don’t see a better way to jump into Wordpress. Keep up the great work!
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diseño de grafico
July 23 2009 @ 01:41AM #
Muy buen blog de diseño! great blog! thanks from Argentina.
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Fips
July 24 2009 @ 04:04AM #
Doh! Just discovered the older version of Starkers a couple of weeks ago for designing a theme. Although I found a few of the outdated parts through trial and error, I’m sure there’s plenty I’ve missed. Might go ahead and use the latest release for a redesign if I find the time. If I’d only procrastinated a little longer!
Either way, great to see this skeleton getting an update.
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Terkel
July 24 2009 @ 11:43PM #
Thanks a lot! I’m using Starkers in all my projects.
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John G
July 29 2009 @ 10:10PM #
Hi Elliot, another big thank you from me… I’m writing this starkers too! Not really… I’ve kept my socks on.
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Leon
July 31 2009 @ 07:35PM #
Thank you very much!
I’ve used this theme in a couple of projects and was very satisfied.
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Andy kleeman
August 01 2009 @ 05:45AM #
This is superb, great idea, thanks! Il defo use this on my next wp project!
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Moa
August 01 2009 @ 08:12PM #
I have been using Starkers for a whole lot of projects since WP 2.6, and I was thrilled to see this new grown-up version. Very helpful, and saves me loads of time. Many thanks!
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Chris Madden
August 07 2009 @ 04:07AM #
Very cool. This is just what I was going to have to end up doing myself anyways. Thanks Elliot!
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Rafael
August 20 2009 @ 02:15PM #
Will start learning how to use Wordpress as a CMS with this :)
Thanks!
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Ted Bondhus
August 27 2009 @ 07:08PM #
I’ve used Starkers to create several sites and it’s a beautiful tool!
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Pontus Johansson
September 05 2009 @ 06:46PM #
This is amazing Elliot. It will significantly speed up development. Thank you!
I have one suggestion though, and that is to swap the h2 tags for the post heading in single.php, to h1. The title of a document (post/category/page …) should always be wrapped in a h1, both for the sake of semantics and SEO (see this W3 article). And since you can only have one h1 on a page, the ultimate solution would then be to have a conditional statement in header.php so that the title of the blog is a h1 ONLY if it’s the home page, and a h2 if it’s anything else. What do you think?
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