Title: Minimal theme. Feedback
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Minimal theme. Feedback

 *  [vshotarov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vshotarov/)
 * (@vshotarov)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimal-theme-feedback/)
 * Dear all,
    This is my first post in the forums and I am very excited to be a 
   part of that incredible community ! **Intro** Recently I decided to get into 
   web design and web dev and I started from the basics – HTML, CSS, JS and PHP.
   Seeing that WP is such a big part of the web I want to be familiar with the processes
   involved in creating a theme, so naturally I navigated to the WordPress codex.**
   Initial idea** After some reading, I got down to it and tried to develop a very,
   VERY basic theme which would include the fundamental procedures to get data from
   the database and show it on the page. My prefered way of learning is to dissect
   existing projects, so I opened the underscores theme and the twentyX themes and
   tried to understand and replicate their functions. **Minimal Theme** So in the
   end I managed to get the content to show using a very basic approach and a very
   dirty one (assembling everything in the ‘index.php’). I do understand the concept
   and importance of templates, but to make it easier for myself I like to put everything
   together, so I could more easily get my head around it. [The Theme – GitHub](https://github.com/vshotarov/minWP)**
   Questions**
    1. Are the functions and structures I’ve used the proper ones to use when creating
       an up-to-standards WordPress theme?
    2. If I put all the bits and pieces in the appropriate templates (keeping the code
       structure relatively similar) and I get down to create the styles and scripts
       for all the sections and functions, would that be considered a theme that can
       be used in commercial and personal projects?
 * Thank you for your time !
    Vasil

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