Underscores is a minimal, highly adaptable starter theme designed for developers who build custom website designs. It provides a clean, standards-compliant codebase as a foundation, eliminating the need to start from a blank file or strip down a heavy pre-built theme.

• Lean, Modern Codebase: Offers a just-right amount of well-commented, semantic HTML5 templates and starter CSS. This organized foundation helps you start your design work immediately without wrestling with complex, pre-styled layouts.
• Development-Friendly Structure: Includes custom template tags and functions that keep your template files clean and prevent code duplication. This logical separation of concerns makes the theme easier to maintain and extend.
• Responsive Navigation: Comes with a ready-to-use JavaScript file that converts the main menu into a toggleable dropdown on small screens, providing a solid base for implementing responsive design patterns.
• Flexible Layout Options: Provides two sample CSS layouts in the /layouts/ directory for positioning a sidebar on either side of the main content, giving you a quick starting point for common page structures.
• Helpful Boilerplate: Includes practical extras like a 404 error page template and optional sample code for implementing custom headers, which can save time on common development tasks.