Best Practices

Theming guidelines worth following.

Listed below are a couple of things we’ve found to be a good idea when building a theme.

• Name your main CSS and JavaScript files the same name as your theme
• Template and layout files should have .html extensions
• Only put image files pertaining to your theme in your theme directory; content-related imagery should go the assets folder to properly maintain separation of content from style
• Create as many templates and subdirectories as you’d like
• Use relative paths in your CSS files, for example: url(../img/bg.png);
• Use lowercase filenames
• When sharing, distributing, or selling a theme, feel free to include a directory for _content showing sample posts and pages that use your theme’s templates, etc.