The best way for professional developers to build WordPress websites

Barebones is a lightweight and skeletal WordPress boilerplate theme with powerful features to encourage rapid development.

Currently 3.0.0

True to its name, barebones is designed to give you a streamlined starting point when developing custom WordPress themes without any of the bloat. Spend less time stripping back existing styles and more time writing bespoke code.

With an intuitive grid system and reliance on variables to control common elements such as fonts, breakpoints and sizing, barebones helps you save time on repetitive tasks each time you start a new project.

From helper classes to placeholder code for common elements such as shortcodes and TinyMCE style formats, barebones ensures you spend less searching for frequently used code snippets on each unique project.

By developers, for developers

Packed with powerful features for rapid development

Responsive grid system

A straightforward twelve column grid system to quickly develop responsive layouts.

Media query helpers

Easily show and hide content at different breakpoints with helper classes.

Code optimisation

Watch and build functions combine SASS files and minify your JS and CSS code when you’re ready for production.

Structured code

The easy to follow SASS structure helps keep your styles clearly demarcated according to common uses.

<div class="container">

    <div class="row">

        <div class="col col–lg-4 col–md-4 col–sm-12 col–xs-12">

            <img class="visible-sm" src="/img/mobile-logo.jpg" />

            <img class="visible-lg" src="/img/desktop-logo.jpg" />

        </div>

    </div>

</div>

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Install the barebones installer to create new WordPress projects with a single command.

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Hints, tips and code snippets for professional WordPress developers working on fully custom builds or with our boilerplate theme.

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