A framework is a set of functions and logic developed separately from the WordPress core while a starter theme uses standard Word Press code .
Let me explain better. Frameworks, like Genesis for example, often introduce new functions and new logical structures that help us speed up and simplify development while, with a starter theme, we are able to use the same functions that WordPress provides us to facilitate our development.
We will come back to this concept later, I don't want to bore you with other technical details, what I'm interested in is understanding with you why a starter theme is useful .
You surely know that WordPress, like most CMS on the market, is able to automatically assemble list of palestine consumer email the HTML structure of the site. As seen several times in the course Create your first WordPress theme, this platform offers us many tools to call the various PHP files and make sure that the server generates the HTML page for us.
In my journey I have often met people who started taking their first steps by modifying one of the themes that we find pre-installed within WordPress, whether the famous Twenty Ten, Eleven, Twelve… Maybe you too have started developing WordPress themes by studying the code present in these and, if you think about it for a moment, you haven't even made a bad choice!
After all, these themes are tested by hundreds of volunteers and the code inside is certainly high quality but, for starters, it was not written to help the developer .