Our September Meetup will focus on theme frameworks.
Theme frameworks as defined in Codex
- A “drop-in” code library that is used to facilitate development of a Theme (e.g. Thesis)
- A stand-alone base/starter Theme that is intended either to be forked into another Theme, or else to be used as a Parent Theme template (e.g. WooThemes Canvas)
Check out the The WordPress Theme Frameworks Starter Guide on wp tuts+ for an introduction to the subject and a review of 10 top theme frameworks. There are gray areas between these 2 different types of theme frameworks, but here are some examples.
Stand-alone from WebResourcesDepot:
- Blank Themes
- Bones
- Brave New World
- Constellation Theme
- Elastic
- Flexible
- Foundation
- Gantry
- H5 Theme Template
- Handcrafted
- HTML5 Reset
- Html5 Shell
- Hybrid
- Indeziner
- Presswork
- Reverie
- Roots
- rtPanel
- Sandbox
- Simon
- Skeleton
- Starkers
- StartBox
- Suffusion
- The Buffet
- Thematic
- Thematic-html5boilerplate
- ToolBox
- TwentyTen Five
- Whiteboard
- Wonderflux
- WP Paintbrush
- Yoko
Drop-in from Taking Stock on WordPress Theme Frameworks
- Ashford
- Backbone
- Base
- Bibliotheca 2
- Buddymatic
- Buffet Framework
- Builder
- Carrington Build
- Carrington Core
- Catalyst
- Elemental
- Gantry
- Genesis
- Gravy
- Headway
- Howling Dog Theme Framework
- Hybrid Core
- Modularity
- MultiToool
- NHP Theme Options Framework
- OnePress Community
- Options Framework Theme
- PageLines
- PressWork
- Reverie
- rtPanel
- Startbox
- SWFPress
- Thematic
- ThemeFrame
- Themnific
- Thesis
- Ultimatum
- Whiteboard Framework
- Wonderflux
- WordPress Theme Framework
- WP Framework
- WP Sumo
- WPUnlimited
- Xtreme One
Related reading
- 15 Free WordPress Theme Frameworks on Vandelay Designs
- Top 10 Frameworks WordPress Themes For 2012 on Hosting Reviews
- The War of WordPress Theme Frameworks (Genesis vs Thesis)
- WordPress Themes or WordPress Theme Frameworks?
