Whiteboard - A Free Wordpress Theme Framework

Whiteboard - A Wordpress Theme Framework

When designing Wordpress themes, a large amount of time is spent writing the same code over and over again. I found it annoying. Granted, I know there are themes out there like Elliot Jay Stocks’ Starkers Theme (which I used), but none of them were quite to my style.
Whiteboard is the result.

The Whiteboard theme is the basic framework of Wordpress.

It is designed to speed up the process of designing and coding a Wordpress theme by eliminating the time spent on Wordpress’ back-end PHP that is used in every theme.

Whiteboard is clean, noted, and compact (only 104 KB in size). It includes all the standard PHP tags and PHP files needed for a Wordpress theme - plus a few extras.

It’s free - no strings attached

Feel free to use it for commercial and non-commercial ventures.
You don’t even need to include a “designed by” link! (though I would appreciate a link… )

Files Included: 404.php, archives.php, archives.php, categories.php, comments.php, footer.php, functions.php, header.php, index.php, page.php, search.php, searchform.php, sidebar.php, footer.php, and style.css.

Extra Features:
Categories Page Template
Archives Page Template
Pagination Posts
Socialization Links (Technorati, Stumble it!, Digg, de.licio.us, Yahoo, reddit, Blogmarks, Google, and Magnolia.)

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16 Responses to “Whiteboard - A Free Wordpress Theme Framework”

  • Nice! Looking forward to trying this out, I’ve been building using the “default” theme for ages, which means I just keep stripping out the same useless code bits over and over every time :-)

     

  • You don’t happen to have an example of this anywhere do you?

     

  • very nice, can’t wait to test it :D
    thanks

     

  • I do not have an example up at this point.
    If you want, I could get one up!

    Hm…
    Would anyone happen to know of a plugin or something that allows test pages?
    I suppose I could try Google though…

     

  • Now this is a theme that should be created.. The sandbox theme was filled with excess rocks and sticks which made playing dangerous work, congrats and I will definitely download and use :)

     

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  • you should put a download count here ;)

     

  • [...] 平常大家在为wordpress做主题的时候大多都是在自带的主题上进行修改，难免有不少垃圾代码存在，而且很多时候都在做重复的代码工作。当时就考虑过，是否应该整理一个只有一些基础预设的干净主题。没想今天还真看到一个 — Whiteboard。 [...]

     

  • Yeah, I’ve been very curious to see how it’s done…
    but last time I added a download count (for PIXELATED), it wouldn’t download.

     

  • I haven’t looked at it yet, but, it’s an interesting idea. I tend to work off one of my own. However, this might be a better idea, as I tend to have to strip quite a bit away before using.

     

  • [...] Whiteboard is a free Wordpress framework by Brian Purkiss of Plainbeta.com. It is designed to take the leg work out of creating a Wordpress theme. It’s free with no strings attached so you can use it for commercial and non-commercial ventures. Brian has even been nice enough to say that you don’t even have to give him a link back for his efforts. Well worth a visit for anyone interested in Wordpress themes. [...]

     

  • [...] for details sake there are a bunch of other starter/framework themes you can check, most notably plainbeta’s Whiteboard, Darren Beale’s WordPress Naked, Elliot Jay Stocks’s Starkers, and ThemeShaper’s [...]

     

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  • Thank you very much for this. It’s very useful.

     

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