For who are new to wordpress, starting your own wordpress theme can be hard and take long time, even if you are already familiar with PHP, cause wordpress has it’s own function for displaying content.
All these theme framework can help you to make your own wordpress theme faster, most of them already have the common structure of wordpress theme, like filename, stylesheet, used wordpress function in layout, etc.
1. Roots
Roots theme is a wordpress theme framework build on HTML5 Boilerplate and Blueprint CSS, on the official page you can see a lot of feature from this framework, and some tips on wordpress, like recommended plugins to use.
2. Wonderflux
When I found this one, currently still in beta version, but you can download it from google code, the purpose to aiming not only for developers, but for designer as well.
3. Whiteboard Framework
This framework is that I’m currently learning of, it use some HTML5 tags, the default stylesheet based on CSS less framework, and you can always have an option to have your own stylesheet.
4. The Buffet Framework
Targeted for developers and end user who want to create both theme or child theme.
5. Thematic Framework
Thematic is a WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. Great for beginner and WordPress development professionals.
6. Plaintxt
Start to create a minimalist wordpress theme, this theme have 6 variety of themes that you can used as theme framework.
7. Carrington Theme
Carrington Theme is one of the most popular wordpress theme framework, it available on three different format, the elegant stlye, minimalist or text style and the mobile style.
8. Platform
Platform is a free version of pagelines wordpress theme framework, that have advanced theme feature like drag and drop layout.
9. Build
A minimal framework theme. Can also be used as a standalone theme for your blog.
10. WP Framework
A rapid wordpress development framework, that have default look like default wordpress theme “Twenty Ten”.
11. One Press Community
One Press Community framework is for community site based on wordpress, the theme also have easy integration with phpBB forum system.
12. Hybrid
Hybrid core is very modular, Hybrid Core should be used when you need to quickly build a new WordPress theme but also need control over the markup, style, and JavaScript. Hybrid core is not a theme but a framework.
13. Startkers
Starkers is completely blankc wordpress themes, when you install it you will got the blog with no style at all.
14. O-Theme
15. Simon Framework
It’s a blank wordpress theme framework that uses 960.gs grid.
16. SWFPress
SWFPress is a framework that allows you to easily create flash based wordpress themes that behave exactly like any other wordpress theme.
17. WP Constructor
18. Notes Blog Core
The Notes Blog Core theme is meant to work both as a framework to build child themes on.
19. 3.0 Basic Theme Framework
This is a New2WP 3.0 theme framework that started out as more of a basic starter theme to use when making new WordPress themes and quickly became a bigger project than was planned.
20. PHP Ease
A WordPress theme built on the Blueprint and Yahoo! YUI Grid Builder CSS Frameworks.
21. Precious
Precious is a theme framework for WordPress 2.8+. Built with simplicity and web accessibility in mind.
22. Shape
A search engine optimized website framework for WordPress.
23. Biblioteca
24. WP Basis Theme
Basis has been built to make theme development for WordPress easier. If you are an experienced theme developer or a total beginner, Basis provides a highly customizable starting point for your theme development.
25. Vanilla Theme
Not like any other theme framework vanilla theme use PHPTAL Template Engine.
26. Imagination
27. Starter Theme
28. PressWork
PressWork is a free, open-source theme framework built for WordPress 3.2 using HTML5 and CSS3. It was created out of a need for a framework that catered to all types of users. As developers, we needed it to be powerful enough to allow for complete customization, which is why every element in PressWork can be hooked into.
An Awesome collection.. Most of theme framework was unknown to me… Great works
Roots Framework is exactly I need, because it built on Blueprint CSS and 960.gs
nice list here !
Nice list.
Ideal to start a new custome theme from an already advanced integration.
Thank you 4 this List
nice list thanks (o:
Good collection of theme framework. Here is one more open source framework i.e. “rtPanel” that can included. It provides developer flexiblity to write code on it and develop amazing websites, provides hooks and filters and free technical support.
Check rtPanel theme here http://rtpanel.com