About

etc/skel is a skeleton theme for WordPress. It is designed to be used as a starting point for developing your own WordPress themes.

Features

Features have been kept to a minimum as it’s a skeleton theme. That said, a few basic features have been included to help prevent repetitive tasks.

  • Required and basic files included:
    • 404.php
    • archive.php
    • comments.php
    • footer.php
    • functions.php
    • header.php
    • index.php
    • page.php
    • pager.php
    • search.php
    • searchform.php
    • single.php
    • style.css
  • Primary and footer menus
  • Function files to enqueue additional CSS and JS files, with examples for loading conditional styles and scripts
  • Function file for enabling theme support for:
    • title-tag
    • automatic-feed-links
    • post-thumbnails
    • html5
    • custom-logo
    • wp-block-styles
    • align-wide
    • responsive-embeds
  • Optional Grunt task runner set-up provided within the utils directory to get you up and running quickly with a build system

Issues

You can report any issues with this theme via the theme’s GitHub issue tracker.