Underscores is a minimal starter theme designed for developers and designers who want to create custom themes from the ground up. It serves as a clean, hackable foundation, avoiding pre-built styles and features that can limit creativity. This tool is ideal for those who prefer full control over their theme's code and design, rather than using a pre-made parent theme.

• Lean, well-commented templates: Offers modern HTML5 templates with minimal CSS, reducing clutter and making it easier to customize without wrestling with existing styles.
• Custom template tags and functions: Includes organized files like inc/template-tags.php and inc/template-functions.php to keep code clean, prevent duplication, and improve the theming workflow.
• Responsive navigation: Provides a script at js/navigation.js that enables toggled dropdown menus on small screens, ready for custom CSS styling to match your design.
• Sample layouts and CSS: Features two sample CSS layouts in layouts/ for sidebars and smartly organized starter CSS in style.css to help jumpstart your design process quickly.
• Optional custom header and 404 template: Includes an optional sample custom header implementation and a helpful 404 template, adding useful starting points without forcing their use.