Tired of using other’s licensed WordPress themes for your projects and now thinking of choosing a way further in building your own new WordPress-based website. But, what exactly you would be requiring in order to build the one. Is it just a process constitutes of few processes or is it something really a big game? What options are available in front of you? The possibilities, the problems and many more things can come in between in the process, but if you think that you are really to take the next step then this is the time.
For a beginner theme, you would be requiring theme framework which will work as a solid code foundation for whole of your website which will come with built-in generic features. Making a WordPress theme or website with the help of framework is the most efficient way of today’s world of website development as it guarantees that you will get stable end results. Not only this, but also using the framework will help in saving your time.
Here in this article, I have included five of top frameworks, sharing their features with which you can create your custom WordPress-based websites:
HTML5Reset
- Standards-compliant HTML5 and CSS3
- Includes Modernizr the library
- Very clean and detailed code, focus on CSS optimization
- Complies with hNews microformat
- Cross-browser compatible with easy browser-specific classes
- Widget-ready
The _s Theme
- Backed by the experience of the WordPress creators
- Standards-compliant HTML5 and CSS3 code
- Minimalist and well-commented templates
- Easy to add and remove capabilities
- Custom header implementation
- Custom add-on functions, or “tweaks”
- 5 ready-made CSS-based layouts
- Custom template tags to optimize your code and prevent duplication
- Sample theme options panel
- Mobile-friendly, with smartphone-optimized drop-down menus
- Open source
Hybrid Core
- Modular structure for maximum flexibility
- Supports breadcrumbs, galleries, pagers, drop-down menus, etc
- Custom theme settings UI
- Search engine optimized
- Translation-ready
- Widget-ready, includes 15 custom widgets
- Easy layout creation and per-post layout control
- Offers a wide variety of child themes
Whiteboard
- Widest choice of dynamic classes and IDs
- HTML5 and CSS3 with seamless degradation
- Supports menu, background, and header management, several widget areas, etc
- Easy to remove unneeded parts
- Built-in Less framework for full mobile support
- Lightweight and well-structured code
- Compliant with WordPress development standards
- Compatible with older Cross-browser compatible
- Search engine optimized
- Supports multi-lingual capabilities
- Open source
Bones
- Standards-compliant HTML5 and CSS3
- Extremely detailed, clean, and well-commented code
- WordPress header optimized for speed and performance
- Mobile-first approach
- Graceful fallbacks for older browsers
- Easy to add and remove features
- Supports custom post types
- Custom dashboard functions included
- Open source