Originally published at: http://www.sitepoint.com/reverie-foundation-based-wordpress-starter-theme/
Reverie is a popular WordPress starter theme. It’s mainly based on ZURB’s Foundation framework, with a few added perks. You don’t have to go through the hassle of trying to mesh the Foundation framework with WordPress on your own. This is a great way to get up and running, if you want to dive straight into development. When you work with an existing theme, even if it’s a framework and you’re going to customize it, it’s important to understand how to go about it, so that you streamline the process. Not taking the time to understand the framework or starter theme you’re using can end up costing you more time than if you just built everything from scratch.
Your First Major Decision
Whenever you customize any base or starter theme, you want to evaluate the need for a child theme. If you’re going to keep the theme updated, you’ll definitely want to go the route of using a child theme. The main reason for this is that when you update the main theme, you are likely to lose all of the changes you’ve made. This can easily be a disaster if you are building the site for a client.
On the other hand, if you don’t want clients updating the theme by themselves and destroying all of your hard work, you can disable updates with a simple code snippet. This will make theme updates unavailable from the backend for that user. Updates to themes and plug-ins can end up breaking the whole site. Disable them by adding the following to the functions.php file.
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