Underscores is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers who build custom themes for content management systems. It provides a clean, standards-compliant codebase that serves as a foundation, allowing you to focus on implementing unique designs and functionality without starting from scratch.

• Lean, commented templates: Offers modern HTML5 templates with just the essential structure and clear comments, reducing clutter and speeding up development.
• Organized starter CSS: Includes smartly organized CSS in style.css that provides a sensible starting point for your own stylesheets.
• Custom template tags: Features reusable functions in inc/template-tags.php that help keep template files clean and prevent code duplication.
• Responsive navigation: Comes with a JavaScript file (js/navigation.js) that creates a toggled dropdown menu for small screens, ready for custom styling.
• Sample layouts and components: Provides optional sample implementations, like a custom header and two CSS layout examples, to illustrate common patterns.