Underscores is a minimal starter theme intended for developers who build custom themes for content management systems. It provides a clean, standards-compliant codebase as a foundation, avoiding pre-made design choices so developers can create unique themes efficiently.

• Lean, Modern Templates: Offers a just-right amount of well-commented, modern HTML5 templates that serve as a solid starting point without unnecessary bloat.
• Organized Starter CSS: Features smartly organized starter CSS in style.css to help you implement your design quickly, with the minimal styling intentionally not getting in your way.
• Custom Template Tags: Includes custom template tags in inc/template-tags.php to keep template files clean and prevent code duplication across your project.
• Responsive Navigation: Provides a script (js/navigation.js) that converts the menu into a toggled dropdown on small screens, offering a responsive foundation ready for custom styling.
• Sample Layouts & Functions: Comes with two sample CSS layouts in a layouts/ directory and includes small tweaks in inc/template-functions.php to improve the theming experience during development.