[theme-reviewers] What are your thoughts on "blank" themes?

[Justin Tadlock]

For the specific case I'm asking about, it would be a truly blank theme 
with no CSS definitions.  It definitely wouldn't pass all the unit test 
guidelines.

Honestly, I'd rather Average Joe *not* download and try to use it 
unless, of course, he's wanting to learn about theme development.  So, 
I'm definitely in favor of having a "blank" or "developer" tag for such 
themes.

On 11/29/2011 3:14 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> The reason I see it as a "niche" or "special use" case is that, 99.99% 
> of the time, end users are not going to use a truly "blank" (i.e. NO 
> CSS definitions, whatsoever) on a live site, without modification, and 
> such use is not the intended purpose of such Themes.
>
> Chip
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Edward Caissie 
> <edward.caissie at gmail.com <mailto:edward.caissie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I do not have any issues with a "blank" theme, generally speaking
>     I would consider most "minimalist" themes as working to be
>     considered along the lines of "blank" as well ... at least given
>     definition I would use when reading "minimalist".
>
>     Having another theme in the repository specifically, or at least
>     originally, designed for the purpose of helping new (or old)
>     "developers" is a great idea. I'm not even really seeing it
>     requiring a niche label as I am taking from the original premise
>     it would pass the standard guideline requirements as one of its
>     initial goals.
>
>
>     Cais.
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ian Stewart
>     <ian at iandanielstewart.com <mailto:ian at iandanielstewart.com>> wrote:
>
>         On 2011-11-29, at 2:11 PM, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>
>         > Well they're not really a special-use case from the
>         perspective of the
>         > end user who wants to download a special kind of (usable)
>         theme for
>         > WordPress.  It seems that they warrant perhaps their own
>         separate
>         > developer section outside of extend on the site, or maybe
>         just some
>         > links from the wiki.
>
>         I think separating them out would be OK but I think labelling
>         them as "blank" would be better than "developer". It's
>         friendlier to people who wouldn't label themselves as
>         developers but are more than capable of hacking a blank theme.
>
>         Ian
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