Prototype WordPress theme

Prototype is a parent theme developed as a starting point for blogs. Its primary goal is to get your blog up and running without a lot of hassle and allow you to make quick customizations.

This theme is a parent theme. What this means is that to customize it, you should be creating a child theme. Is it a theme framework? Some people might call it that. All you need to know is that it's a solid, yet flexible, starting point for any blog.

Features

Prototype is built from the rock-solid Hybrid Core theme framework, so it provides a great starting point with many useful features.

Per-post layouts that allow you to quickly change the layout of your site.
Post setting that allows you to add a custom stylesheet for individual posts.
A smart breadcrumb menu that handles tons of permalink setups.
Built-in pagination for your home, archive, and search pages.
Post thumbnails that work with WordPress' featured image functionality and provide extra features.
Multiple sidebars that you can customize however you like.
Dynamic global, post, and comment CSS classes.
Fully localized, so you can run the theme in any language.
Uses the built-in WordPress menu system. No need to hack your navigation into place.
Context-aware action and filter hooks, so you don't have to learn WordPress conditional tags.
Some of the most-used filter hooks are shortcode-ready and have accompanying shortcodes.
Theme settings page that allows you to add custom meta boxes and settings.
A redefined template hierarchy that makes larger sites easier to design for.
Ability to create custom templates for any post type in multiple ways.
Easily add post-specific settings and not make users learn how to use custom fields.
Highly-configurable widgets that give you full control over their display.
Widget areas are content-aware, meaning that they only appear if they contain active widgets.
And much, much more!

Child themes

Since Prototype is a parent theme, you'll want to create a child theme if you plan on making any customizations. Don't know how to make a child theme? It's relatively simple. Just follow the below steps.

Create a theme folder in your /wp-content/themes directory called prototype-child.
Then, create a style.css file within your theme folder.
At the top of your style.css file, add the below information.

/**
 * Theme Name: Prototype Child
 * Theme URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Description: Describe what your theme should be like.
 * Version: 0.1
 * Author: Your Name
 * Author URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Tags: Add, Whatever, Tags, You, Want
 * Template: prototype
 */

This will give you a blank design. If you want to import the Prototype parent theme style, simply append this code after the above information:

@import url( '../prototype/style.css' );

/* Custom code goes below here. */

Note that child themes are now the officially-supported way of modifying themes in WordPress.

Theme support

Support for the Prototype theme is not offered on the WordPress support forums. There is a community called Theme Hybrid where support is offered for this theme. You are encouraged to sign up to the site to use its support forums and become a part of the community.

Copyright & license

Prototype is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL).