In recent days, I confronted Basics to the guidelines and good practices given by the WordPress.org theme repositery. The Theme Unit Test is a good way to see how behave a WordPress theme in a “hostile environment”. Basics is not doing too badly, regarding the fact, that it is supposed to be a blank theme. Indeed, Basics doesn’t have all the pages like single.php, category.php, tag.php, author.php, etc. that you typically find within themes. (which did not prevent him from operate).

The first thing I did to test Basics was downloading the Download test data which offers a lot of pages, posts containing images and markup to ensure that all that folks are ready to go.

I’ve proposed Basics to the Free Themes Directory. It’s a little binding, but It should worth it. Feel free to have a look to the trac subversion.