Boilerplate WordPress Theme
a merger created by aaron t. grogg (http://aarontgrogg.com/) of the html5 boilerplate (http://html5boilerplate.com/) and the starkers theme (http://starkerstheme.com/), boilerplate: starkers provides developers with an ideal, bleeding-edge, clean-start theme. mark-up is minimal (thanks elliott) and the most edge-case web technology is baked right in (thanks paul, divya and a large cast of supporting characters)! boilerplate themes are designed to serve as a parent theme to whatever child (http://codex.wordpress.org/child_themes) you care to add, but you could just as easily use this as a starting point and alter the php as your design needs. more about this theme can be found at http://aarontgrogg.com/boilerplate/.
Sites running Boilerplate, click to open one
Themes with a similar audience
Ranked by how many sites use them — a quick way to compare Boilerplate with alternatives.
Usage of Boilerplate over time
May 2023 — July 2024Between May 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites using this theme went from 817 to 354 — down 463 (-56.7%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 354 | -23 |
| June 2024 | 377 | -3 |
| May 2024 | 380 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 380 | -4 |
| March 2024 | 384 | -104 |
| February 2024 | 488 | -14 |
| January 2024 | 502 | -156 |
| December 2023 | 658 | -79 |
| November 2023 | 737 | -6 |
| October 2023 | 743 | -26 |
| September 2023 | 769 | -24 |
| August 2023 | 793 | -10 |
| July 2023 | 803 | -10 |
| June 2023 | 813 | -4 |
| May 2023 | 817 | — |
Plugins used alongside Boilerplate
Detected most often on sites that run this theme. Check compatibility before installing anything new.
| # | Plugin |
|---|---|
| 1 | Contact-form-7 |
| 2 | Jetpack |
| 3 | Gravityforms |
| 4 | Google-analyticator |
| 5 | Column-shortcodes |
| 6 | Dropdown-menu-widget |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Easy-fancybox |
| 9 | Captcha |
| 10 | Google-language-translator |
| 11 | Bwp-minify |
| 12 | All-in-one-event-calendar |
| 13 | Download-monitor |
| 14 | Font-resizer |
| 15 | Easy-columns |
| 16 | Google-maps-widget |
| 17 | Cforms |
| 18 | Addthis |
| 19 | Add-to-any |
| 20 | Instapress |
Sites built with Boilerplate
All sites in the collection100 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
