Rating: 5 stars
Half the problems with design and functionality stem from themes with built-in crap you don’t want or need. Blank Slate does away with all that. Of course, I still have to deal with scripts and functions built into the plugins I need for my purposes, but it’s nice to know they’re not coming from the theme. But most importantly, I can create my own design from scratch. Blank Slate is free, but freedom to create my own design is priceless.
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Very good for creating custom developed websites
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Liked that, handy for getting quick start for WP theme structure.
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Truly a blank slate. Many thanks.
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When I convert an old HTML site to WP, I start with Blankslate
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Yes. Keep improving and maintaining.
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Siempre uso este tema para empezar desde de 0
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Very simple, love it
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Perfect starter theme
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Just saw that there is an update available for the BalnkSlate theme and got a little nervous.
– How do you improve perfection? –
I don’t want anything to be added.
I kept going for more and more basic themes to prevent compatibility issues, until I found BlankSlate – the most bare bones theme. It that can’t have any compatibility issues.
Just create your own Reset stylesheet and you’re set!
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Blankslate is sooooo basic and I love it!
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I was trying to use WordPress (’cause it’s easy) to create a website without a Blog. More or less just a simple page with some text and images.
So, after I spent time, customizing WordPress Twenty Nineteem theme and eliminating all the Widgets, there was still too much blank header space. Searched for a solution to eliminate header space – not much help. Then I found Blank-Slate WordPress plugin.
Bingo! As soon as I installed and activated the plugin and went to the page to select the Blank Slate template and updated the page. That extra space at the top of the page was gome and the page displayed so much better.
I highly recommend it.
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Love it!
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Solid and straightforward base to create your own WP theme. Recommended!
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I gave it a chance – and it was worth it!
Finally a theme that’s REALLY a blank theme – not a blank theme WITH Bootstrap X, not a blank theme WITH WooCommerce support, not a blank theme WITH totally embarrassing basic styles including ems and rems and hell – when I want to use pixels.
So thanks, TidyThemes, finally I have the REALLY blank theme I can drop in at the start of each of my projects – and it’s REALLY up to me to choose what will I start building on this base and what technologies will I melt it with, and what apps/plugins will I support and integrate in the dev process.
Halleluyah!! ??
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very useful. Perfect for those of us who want to create our templates from scratch. You make your own starter kit and use it
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Thank you very much for your work on this theme!
Generally I like to start from scratch because I do not like to have a bunch of stuff I do not need and then clean everything up until it has no overhead to start with. But I was searching for a really minimal theme to just getting started and helping me saving some time in production with basic stuff. I FOUND IT ?? Blankslate has just the right amount of helpful presets for me.
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just what i needed
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Pure and simple, works as it should with Elementor Pro
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Blank working theme – blank 5-star rating
IT JUST WORKS AND COMPLETES THE PURPOSE!
Rating: 5 stars
Currently on my 10th project using this theme as a base. Great theme. Everything is stripped back to basics. A clean canvas to create your own unique thing!
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Thank you for your clean starter theme! It has everything I need. Sometimes the less is more and this theme speaks for itself. I tried other so-called ‘boilerplates’, but this is the only solution for me.
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This theme could even be a smidge more stripped down, but it’s super easy to delete stuff without breaking things.
ALL other themes have too much opinionated, “helpful” stuff. This has all the fundamentals and that’s it. Basically no CSS, minimal markup, no preprocessors.
Brilliant!
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Great idea BUT there are no features to it. 1 is no background support.
Im new at this wordpress and trying to get my site up. A simple sit made with godaddys site builder https://www.invisiblewindows.online/
Have a new address https://invisiblewindows.org/
All I want to do for now is recreate it with wordpress.
After I learn more Ill change the site later
Rating: 5 stars
In my work (and I’d assume this applies to a lot of web designers and developers), I often have to make a decision: Do I
The first option is potentially the easiest, but you never know what seemingly inconsequential change is going to completely break it and cause hours of headaches. What’s more, it’s not even a choice if you can’t find one that suits your needs. On a limited budget? The theme you need could be expensive. And if you you don’t wanna give free advertising to the theme’s designer (many businesses don’t), you often need to resort to nasty hacks with hidden divs in CSS.
The second option is the most powerful and avoids many of the pitfalls of the first… but it’s really, really time consuming. The amount of work that gets duplicated from project to project can really balloon out of control, and the risk of errors goes way up when you have to manually type out that much PHP. It’s a workable solution, but far from ideal.
The third option, a boilerplate theme, seems ideal. The basics are in place, and all you’ve gotta deal with is CSS, right? Unfortunately, in my experience, this frequently isn’t the case. Even a typical boilerplate often makes assumptions about how you intend to use it, and will require the designer to install frameworks they don’t want before starting, significantly modify existing PHP for anything too far off the beaten path, and put up with a slower, bloated theme full of features their doesn’t need.
That’s why I love BlankSlate so much. It’s about as minimalistic as a boilerplate can get. It’s enough to get started if you only wanna deal with CSS and not PHP, but the PHP is simple enough that even someone who doesn’t know the language could, with relative ease, make modifications if they needed to… But you probably won’t need to. And if you do know PHP and want anything fancy, what’s already there is clear enough that additions are way easier than with other boilerplate themes I’ve used.
In short, BlankSlate is the ideal minimal boilerplate theme. It’s what I’ve needed for a long time. My only regret is that I didn’t find it sooner.
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Its refreshing being able start each new website from bare bones up. If you have CSS and PHP experience, give it a go. Once you get the hang of it, you will find, like I did, that starting from scratch often takes less time getting the website to want as opposed to tweaking an existing theme. If your websites tend to vary greatly, this is the best starting point out there in my opinion.
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My go-to for starting a custom WP theme, even after trying the rest of the field. Can’t beat the simplicity. Blankslate gives you exactly what you need to get up and running and then stays nicely out of the way — no adherence to flavour-of-the-moment frameworks or vogue JS libs. Just the bare bones to build on.
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5 stars. I tried several boilerplates and Blank slate by Tidy Themes is the best for me. Exactly what it says it is, have used it for years without issue, entirely stable, beautiful to build with.
Thank you Tidy Themes!
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I use this all the time when I am making layouts from scratch instead of using a template. Extremely handy, well done, and clean. Well done TidyThemes!
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I LOVE this. I was looking for something that was basically EMPTY. Something that I can customize from the ground up. And this was IT.
Here’s a site I was able to make because of it:
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