<story><title>A solution for designers who don&apos;t know Wordpress</title><url>http://bckmn.com/naked-wordpress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kijin</author><text>I remember when I first tried to learn the WordPress Codex. It was way more difficult than it had any right to be, not only because of the strange format of WordPress themes (Why would you call a function to start a loop?) but also because WordPress didn&apos;t ship with any theme that could serve as a good example.&lt;p&gt;The default theme was, and still is, too bloated for learners to wrap their heads around. It has too many features, too many branches, and too many sub-templates extending the main template, due to the fact that it also needs to serve as a showcase for all of WordPress&apos;s features. I resorted to downloading the most minimalistic third-party theme that I could find, cleaned it up some more, and used it as a base for all the themes I&apos;ve written since then.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m glad that someone finally made an open-source theme specifically for the purpose of being a rock-solid base for other themes. This is something that should have been done by the core developers 10 years ago. I don&apos;t know how much longer we&apos;ll have to suffer the sprawling spaghetti monster that WordPress is, but since a lot of us are stuck with it anyway, why not make our lives easier for the time being!&lt;p&gt;P.S. Please add a link to the GitHub repository, too. Some of us prefer git clones to tarballs.</text></comment>
<story><title>A solution for designers who don&apos;t know Wordpress</title><url>http://bckmn.com/naked-wordpress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steveinator</author><text>This is one of the better things to come across Hacker News recently.  People will hate on Wordpress all they want, but at the end of the day I still have to support a bunch of clients that use it.</text></comment>