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I'm a front-end developer, I have question hope u guys can help me, what do you think is the best practice to create a customized theme? I have this project and I'm contemplating which method to use. There's this existing exotic blogging web design that I need to convert to an actual wordpress theme

method #1 My solution to this is to use a blank theme, any theme mentioned on this blog/article https://www.webfx.com/blog/web-design/blank-wordpress-themes/ and then do the magic, write CSS, HTML, PHP and JS on my own. I'm considering using this theme https://github.com/html5blank/html5blank but my concern is if the Wordpress / PHP version changes, will those blank themes will go down? will it negatively affect the site?

method #2 one suggested to me that we should use a lightweight theme like generatepress / genesis / kadence theme and overwrite it all using child-theme.

So basically in method #2 I'll overwrite the existing single-page, single-post and any other layouts of the selected theme using child-theme using CSS, JS, HTML, and PHP. In my own opinion it makes no sense to do a fully customized WordPress theme using those kind of theme if we are going to overwrite it all using child-theme, might as well start from scratch or use blank theme.

So what do you guys think? Am I missing something? does method #2 make sense? or method #1 is the perfect approach for this? I just want to know all the possibilities, weigh the pros / cons before I proceed to the development phase.

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  • Both methods will work, so it's a matter of personal preference. For me, one of the things I find most frustrating is when I have to work against another developers assumptions, so I always look for a starting point that's as 'empty' of design as possible. About once a year I go to underscores.me (which is the framework that Automattic uses for their themes), output a new empty theme and then modify it to strip it down even further. For the rest of the year, I use that stripped down version of underscores as my starting point for all themes.
    – Tony Djukic
    Oct 4, 2022 at 2:12
  • thanks @TonyDjukic this is very insightful.
    – agent abstract
    Oct 4, 2022 at 17:14

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