Seeking unculttered theme for static wp website.Anyone?

  • Hello, I’m looking for a theme to create a very customized website layout out of.

    The twentyten theme contains too much php, and another theme (that was described as ‘simple’) I’ve tried also contains so many php statements and functions, there’s barely any raw html to edit. It would take forever to understand fully how all that php code fits together, and I don’t have the time to. Even the main css file is in php.

    I don’t need a bunch customization options, I just need a theme with as little php code as possible, so I can customized it myself. More html, less php is what I’m after.

    Any advice?

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  • I doubt that you will find many WordPress themes that don’t contain a reasonably large amount of php. That is how WordPress works. It uses php to pull content that’s stored in your database into your site for display.
    You can still edit and change the existing html just like you would with a static web site. HTML for structure, and CSS for appearance.

    You might take a look here when you get a chance, and see if there is something that is closer to what you may have had in mind for a theme.

    Free Themes Directory

    Thread Starter woopress

    (@woopewss)

    Yes, I’ll check that directory. thanks.

    I need a static website theme that doesn’t check if it’s a post or page etc, and other redundant blog specific code.

    Could I remove the loop and everything between the header and footer, and replace it with raw html, and use the get_header and get_footer functions for the top and bottom sections?

    I’m sure that you could, to some degree, but the code is not really redundant and it would require a fairly good working knowledge of WordPress and the php you want to remove.

    I need a static website theme that doesn’t check if it’s a post or page etc, and other redundant blog specific code.

    WordPress themes aren’t generally intended for static sites. (although I’ve seen many attractive sites built upon open source html templates) WordPress is by nature a dynamic content-publishing solution. That doesn’t mean that you can’t integrate static pages with WordPress, but if you are trying to build a completely static site perhaps it would be easier to do just that?

    Some sources for ideas along those lines:

    https://www.oswd.org/
    https://opensourcetemplates.org/
    https://www.openwebdesign.org/

    Thread Starter woopress

    (@woopewss)

    Thanks Clayton. I’ll keep reading theme creations.

    Or maybe just get the old Kubrick theme, which was pretty simple I remember.

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