Starter Themes, are they really the best place to start?

There are a few types of WordPress developers out there, one group use starter themes since their job, or work, requires them to constantly build custom one-off theme for clientele, work, etc. While not every developer who creates custom themes uses a starter theme, many do, and for good reason. What is a starter theme? A starter theme is a theme that instead of creating a child theme of, you just change the name of, and make your own theme. It is not meant to be a parent, it is meant to be the first few files of your new custom theme. If you don’t use a starter theme, you have to create the same base code every time: style.css, header.php, index.php, and footer.php – these are the core files for any theme, even the functions.php file is optional. So think of a starter theme as your base starting point. Why use a starter theme? I am not going to try to argue that using starter themes are bad, I firmly believe that no matter how fast you can make yourself code, having those 3 files ready to go for a WordPress theme is going to save you HOURS over a couple sites. There are also many great starter themes out there, from the dev-favorite roots.io (sage) or Automattic’s starter theme which #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur