By coincidence, I noticed that Automattic archived _underscores starter theme yesterday (!). It’s a really nice simple theme to build on top. (My own blog is based on it.)
I was wondering it would be nice if someone forked and adapted it to ClassicPress. Just an idea.
I might be able to do just that after October.
I officially started working on this on my local machine. I don’t have an ETA but the fork is definitely coming (might come before October rolls out).
I am cleaning it up, ensuring CPCS and PHP 8.4 compliance.
I have a question however:
Does it need the features that are contained in the Jetpack file? What are the community thoughts about that?
Personally, I dislike Jetpack. It’s bloated and more and more tangled with Automattic’s offerings — which means it’s in a completely different path of ClassicPress.
Underscores has some of it. Wanted to remove it and replace with CP specific code. That’s why I asked
Sorry, @ElisabettaCarrara, I misread your post. (English is my second language!) I thought you were asking whether to keep or remove Jetpack’s bits from _underscores.
As far as I know, it doesn’t need any of the Jetpack data to work proper. There’s also Jetpack stuff on CSS and functions.php, and they also aren’t mandatory.
Yes. I was asking that. Thought you were referring to the plugin sorry. So it’s good if I get to clean it up? I am also switching to vanilla JS instead of JQuery because IMHO it’s better maintenance-wise
Another question: do we want ClassicCommerce support or not? I think I do because CC is our own fork of Woo AND works like a charm. But I am only one…
removed from the functions.php. will remove from CSS, removed the jetpack.php file already. 
I am working FAST me thinks…. but now it’s time to sleep - tomorrow will continue to clean it. I really think I am doing a good job. I converted also the composer and package JSon files to CP - BTW I did not use the Sassified version because I am not really expert on that, but I can work on a sassified version later on.
Yes and yes!
Just a small update:
the theme is available for download and testing here
code has been cleaned up and is up to speed for CPCS and PHP 8.4 (declares 8.0 because my testing environment is 8.0 and I do not want to mess it up with multiple PHP versions - not powerful local machine).
That said, I found a gem hidden inside GitHub (the source code for the Underscores theme generator) and since it has a GPL 2 license I know I can use it - already forked, I do have to work on it to change front-end, put in Elica Underscores files etc… I want to know: is the community OK with me hosting the generator on a subdomain of my main site or should it reside on it’s own domain? Or should it be hosted on CP infrastructure so that the theme can be offered as a starter supported by the community?
Last but not least, feel free to point fingers at my mistakes, open issues and throw PRs at the repo at your heart’s content, I am learning so much these days thanks to this community.
Awesome, @ElisabettaCarrara!
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