can you reccomend a good blank responsive theme

Check out _s. More info here… https://themeshaper.com/2012/02/13/introducing-the-underscores-theme/

I recommend https://www.rootstheme.com/. Built with HTML Boilerplate and Bootstrap, which personally I find makes developing a lot faster.

And it is well supported do you can’t go wrong.

Thank you Pothi, and thank you double.
I actually downloaded roots last night late and have started using that. not gotten to the part yet were it looks responsive.

how do you find that it makes developing faster please?
what do you like about it?
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have to say looking at the roots structure and was wondering how common it is to have the files i’d normally see in the general directory in a template folder.

I like how it segregates a lot of the components. This way you don’t have a ton of files/templates with code that can be called from other files.

I like Bootstrap because it has a lot of nice styles/components built in and if need be you can restyle theirs.

If you are used to the traditional WordPress file structure then Roots might be a little daunting but for me its a lot cleaner and leaner to work , I like the segregation so I can change a file I have in 5 temps in just one spot rather than all the temps.

Thank you Double just one last question off hand.
for sub templates, or a custom made home page. do you put it in the main dir or in the template folder?
and was wondering how do you link the extra css if you have any? i used previously

<?php if(is_page_template(‘subTemplateEngineer.php’)) {?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/css/subtemplate01.css”>
<?php }?>

in one of my headers. it worked on my sandbox but not in the live version.
thx
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actually one more as well ??
this root is a responsive theme but the css is entire blank.
I don’t see the responsive part (w/the exception of what you get to eventually code yourself)
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skeleton & root a good match for responsiveness?

For a custom homepage you need to edit the base.php to call w/e template you want if it is the front page. Linking to another css file you can do in scripts.php.

Root’s style.css is blank except for the template info for wordpress. The css you add to is app.css. All the other styles are being pulled from bootstrap.css and bootstrap-responsive.css in the css folder.

Looking over skeleton I would say it is similar but Bootstrap has many more features built in. It is supported by twitter so you know it is here to stay and be well supported.

Check out https://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/ for everything Bootstrap can do.

i managed to create a home page. by making a home.php then in admin creating a blank page also titled home and giving it the home.php as the sub template.

so getting to know this better but there is one thing that has me really a bit baffled.
i have a style.ccs where I would expect it to be. in the main dir
but also two bootstrap css in the assets/css dir?
that normal? am i supposed to c&p the one of my choice to the style.css?
thx
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Add all your code into assets/app.css . Don’t touch the bootstrap files always add your edits to their css in app.css so if you upgrade when a new version of bootstrap comes out it won’t overwrite you changes.

This theme is designed to not look like it was designed on WordPress that’s why it uses /assets/ for uploads and not the default style.css.

You should definitely checkout Big Blank theme. It makes theme development so much easier.

https://bigemployee.com/projects/big-blank-responsive-wordpress-theme/