Underscores is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers who build custom themes from the ground up. It provides a clean, standards-compliant foundation that is meant to be modified and extended, not used as-is.

Key features include:

• Modern HTML5 Templates: A just-right amount of lean, well-commented templates that follow current standards.
• Organized Starter CSS: Smartly structured CSS in style.css to help you start your design work quickly.
• Custom Template Tags: Functions in inc/template-tags.php keep template files clean and prevent code duplication.
• Responsive Navigation: A JavaScript file (js/navigation.js) provides a toggled dropdown menu for small screens, ready for styling.
• Sample Layouts: Includes two sample CSS layouts in a layouts/ directory for sidebars on either side of your content.
• Helper Functions: Small tweaks in inc/template-functions.php are included to improve the theming experience. The theme is intentionally minimal, offering less pre-styled code to get in your way, which makes it an ideal blank canvas for creating unique, high-performance themes. It is licensed under GPLv2 or later.