WordPress Base Theme

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Download WordPress Base Theme – version 2.0 posted 05-17-2010

This theme is meant to be a starting point for your WordPress theme. It contains some formatting already but you will need to make changes to the styles.css to make this base theme into a fully designed theme.

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You can modify the theme files themselves or create a child theme to make your changes on.

Theme Features

Supports Greg’s High Performance SEO Plugin‘s title, secondary title, and secondary description.
Fixed-width theme with right sidebar
Includes print, form, editor, and reset stylesheets (to use the form styles, add the class “base” to your form.
Featured Image support
Navigation Menu support
Threaded comment and gravatar support
404 page with page suggestions

Custom Functions

Second sidebar (must be uncommented from functions.php)
Custom HTML code for comments in functions.php
Moves gallery CSS to styles.css
Breadcrumb trail function on pages
Replaces Howdy with Welcome in the admin screen
Adds shortcodes to sidebar widgets
Child or Sibling Pages menu shortcode: [subpages]
Line break shortcode: [br]
Strip autoformatting from content shortcode: [raw][/raw]
Shortcode to display loop: [loop category=”news” query=”" pagination=”false”]

Upcoming Changes

Definition list formatting
Improved comment formatting
Pre and Code formatting

I created this theme because none of the blank themes I found fit what I needed. Different people have different tastes so maybe you’ll prefer one of these other base themes. Some have some formatting and others have no formatting at all.