Underscores is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers and designers who build custom themes for content management systems. It provides a clean, standards-compliant codebase as a foundation, allowing creators to implement their own unique designs without wrestling with pre-existing styles or complex features.

• Lean, Modern Templates: Offers a just-right amount of well-commented, semantic HTML5 templates that serve as a solid starting point for any project.
• Organized Starter CSS: The smartly structured style.css file provides essential styling without imposing a design, helping you get your visual concept off the ground quickly.
• Custom Template Tags: Includes a set of template tags in inc/template-tags.php that keep your template files clean, prevent code duplication, and promote best practices.
• Responsive Navigation: Comes with a JavaScript file (js/navigation.js) that automatically converts the main menu into a toggled dropdown on small screens, providing a responsive foundation ready for custom styling.
• Sample Layouts & Functions: Provides optional sample layouts for sidebars and includes small, helpful tweaks in additional PHP files to improve the theming experience and offer implementation examples.