Underscores is a minimal starter theme designed for developers who want to create custom themes from the ground up. It serves as a clean, hackable foundation, avoiding pre-built styles and complex features that can hinder customization. This tool is ideal for those with coding experience who prefer full control over their theme's design and functionality.

• Lean, well-commented templates: Offers modern HTML5 templates with clear comments, making it easy to understand and modify the codebase without clutter.
• Smart CSS organization: Includes starter CSS in style.css that is structured to help you quickly implement your design, along with sample layouts for sidebars.
• Custom template tags and functions: Provides template tags in inc/template-tags.php to keep templates clean and prevent code duplication, plus tweaks in inc/template-functions.php to improve theming workflows.
• Responsive navigation: Features a script at js/navigation.js that enables toggled dropdown menus on small screens, ready for custom CSS styling.
• Additional utilities: Comes with a helpful 404 template, an optional custom header implementation, and is licensed under GPLv2 for open use in projects.