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Old Fashioned

Background

I've just started a new job at an agency and I've been looking around at different starter themes for WordPress. I need something that works for me and effectively allows me to cut down on my dev time and does things that I would normally do anyways.

What I'm thinking of doing

  • Forking _s by Automattic. It is basic, doesn't really do anything funny, and just works. I'm probably not opinionated enough to do my own markup yet.
  • Introduce sass - with bourbon and neat as submodules - bourbon has awesome mixins, and neat has a grid framework that will make responsive stuff totes awes.
  • Using http://typeplate.com/ for typography-related things.
  • Maybe including font-awesome (http://fortawesome.github.io/).
  • Modifying the markup in _s to allow for responsive breakpoints and mixing neat in.
  • Adding a few templates - a ton of the designs that I've seen coming through, for instance, require an image grid.
  • Using composer to include advanced custom fields and maybe a few other nice-to-haves.
  • Eventually maybe introducing coffeescript. Nothing is too insane with what we're working on to do with javascript, so this might not ever happen.

What I want to focus on

  • Making sure our build process becomes faster and therefore making a case my boss that using ThemeForest themes for everything isn't the best solution in the world
  • Having theme options for minor layout changes.

What I want to not happen.

  • Not having options for theme colours or logos or unenecessary things. I hate theme options.
  • Not having shortcodes. Shortcodes are evil. Well, maybe not. But I don't like shortcodes.
  • Not creating some rockstar theme that does everything. I want to build something that works well in an agency context.
  • Not making this the most undeniably hipster-new-tech theme ever. Focus on getting things done.

Deployment

It would be totes awes to have an auto-minifcation gem or script in here as well as something that auto-compiled scss. I'm shite - at ruby, so I might take initiative to learn something here as I'm not a fan of the php stuff available for SCSS.

Conventions I'd like to follow

  • BEM - to a degree. I'm probably going to mess this up the first time, but I think it should be best practice. A drop in library for different components or aspects of the site would be awesome
  • Others TBD

Notes

  • We do a ton of stuff for music-related jobs, so there's probably going to be a bit of focus around that.
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