• Author: Kevin Leary ([email protected])
• Date: March, 2012
• Last mod.: March, 2012
• Version: 0.1
• Website: http://base.kevinleary.net
• GitHub: https://github.com/Kevinlearynet/Base-Theme

The goal of this project is to provide a solid framework for creating highly customized, business WordPress themes that:

• Adhere to WordPress development standards whenever possible
• Follow best practices for SEO
• Are easy for marketing managers to maintain
• Have advanced content management features such as meta boxes, theme options, and customized administrator
• Modular, re-usable and D.R.Y.
• Optimized for speed and performance

• Asynchronous JavaScript loading on demand using HeadJS
• Conditional JavaScript that is only run when it's needed
• LESS optimized CSS to add dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions
• Admin only customization layer (CSS/JS) for fast changes to the WordPress administration.
• Asynchronous, on-demand social widgets.
• Automatic Open Graph Protocol metadata for better looking share data on social media sites.
• Google CDN loaded jQuery (latest version) using the Google Libraries API
• Settings API builder class for rapid, advanced options pages with TinyMCE editor and media upload fields
• Configured for threaded comments
• Pagination function for better navigation on post archive pages

1. http://www.openviewpartners.com
2. http://www.madico.com
3. http://www.citizenschools.org
4. http://www.dgaproductions.com
5. http://www.kevinleary.net
6. http://www.bostonworldpartnerships.com

• Fresh Tilled Soil

1. Create a set of standard theme options for cross project consistencies such as Google Analytics, Twitter, etc.

Any ideas? Tell me!

This free software is copyleft licensed under the same terms as WordPress, or, at your option, under version 2 of the GPL license.