Blank WordPress themes are a great way to start out your theme. It gives you the complete foundation and the biggest step required to making a WordPress theme.
WordPress themes can contain some of the following files:
- 404.php – This file is used to keep people on your site instead of displaying a browser error page, which will help keep traffic on your site
- search.php – This file is used to display the search results of a search made within your site
- archive.php – This file is sort of a catch all, it will display the results of categories and terms
- single.php – This file is used to display a single post from any category, post type or term
- page.php – THis file is used to display a page
- home.php – This file is used to create a home/landing page instead of displaying a list of recent posts as most blogs do by default
- sidebar.php – This file is included into various other template files to display the sidebar
- header.php – This file is used to define the html doc type, add scripts and css and the html header of the theme
- footer.php – This file is used to close the html doc and add the html footer of the theme
- comments.php – This file is used to display comments of a post or page and create the comments form
- searchform.php – This file is used to create the search form
Important Template Files (there are more then whats listed)
The Below Files are included within the above template files for better uniformity of displaying that data
I use the starter themes from – refueled.net
There are 3 themes available there – Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Two Sidebars