Understanding WordPress Starter Themes

WordPress Starter Themes are important for custom WordPress web development. Above all, they put developer experience first and challenge the status quo of best practices. We discuss the differences between a developer starter theme and a multi-purpose theme, and why using a starter theme can give you a big head start in your custom theme development to achieve better results.

Highlights
0:00 Intro
2:44 Multipurpose vs. Starter Themes
5:21 Benefits of Starter Themes
8:34 Approaches to Starter Themes
16:03 Popular Starter Themes
17:44 What makes a good Starter Theme?
20:40 The future of themes
24:13 Why we build Flynt
26:52 Gutenberg redefined themes
31:06 Challenging the status quo
33:37 Better developer experiences

Links
Flynt: https://flyntwp.com/
underscores: https://underscores.me/
Sage: https://roots.io/sage/
Episode w/ Jared Novack (Timber): https://youtu.be/c3GlhhwpKRo
Popular Starter Themes: https://github.com/topics/wordpress-starter-theme
Episode about Gutenberg: https://youtu.be/m-nLuvchssg
WordPress block hydration experiments: https://github.com/WordPress/block-hydration-experiments/discussions/131

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