Last year Ian Stewart at ThemeShaper wrote a series of articles on the subject of coding a WordPress theme from scratch. This theme is a very well crafted blank WordPress theme that you can re-use on your projects.
It has several widget areas, it’s SEO optimzed, and supports translation among other things. Take a look at the code, it’s one of the best blank themes out there in my opinion. I’m not talking about frameworks such as ThemeHybrid or Thematic which take a different approach (they use child themes).
So, in the process of redesigning my web design portfolio website , I converted the “Shaper” theme to use HTML 5 markup. Where it makes sense, I use the new HTML 5 tags such as header, section, article. I didn’t use hgroup for the logo/tagline pair, because the way the theme works is the tagline is a H1 on the homepage and a div on the other pages for SEO reasons.
The comments use the article tag, as recommended.
Please download the theme, and let me know what you think.
was really interested in checking out your version of the theme transferred into html5 – but the link ends in a 404 not found error and a search for wp5 does not yield any result either.
Great! thanks for sharing!