This theme is a styleless combination of the Underscores (_s) starter theme by Automattic and Easy Digital Downloads.

Every time I build a WordPress theme with _s and integrate it with EDD, I do a couple of hours of dirty work. No more. All the dirty work is done here in this starter theme.

Underscores for EDD Features

• Page templates for default EDD pages as well as a members area template
• Grid-ready store front template for digital downloads created in EDD
• Theme customizer options built to customize EDD output as well as regular blog settings
• EDD-specific sidebar for download pages with download information at the top of the sidebar
• Full _s CSS reset and basic starter styles in place
• Full-width HTML structure built in instead of the page-width _s ships with – see “Structure” section of style.css to see the CSS and see the header.php and footer.php files to see the full-width HTML structure in place.
• HTML layout CSS (content/sidebar) as well as and its corresponding responsive CSS already written to include responsive menu toggle
• Font Awesome files already built in and ready to use <i> tags from Font Awesome with no additional work

Underscores for EDD Screenshots

Basic, styleless theme ready for customization

Store front page template – download archives/categories/tags

Single download page with sidebar download information

Basic customizer settings for the main site

Additional customizer options for store front/download archives customization

Theme Instructions

If you know how to use _s, you know how to use this starter theme. The same is true if you know how to use your browser inspector. CSS is really all that’s missing.

The theme uses the slug sdm throughout the files. Do a case-sensitive search and replace in every file to use your own theme slug. Change the theme name in the style.css file as well as the rtl.css file. In the functions.php file, be sure to change the definitions. They start with SDM_ and because they are all caps, your case-sensitive search and replace didn’t catch them.

In the languages directory, change the name of the .pot file to match your slug. And of course, name the theme folder whatever you’d like.

With that done, you’re ready to activate the theme and write some CSS. It’s that easy.

License

GNU General Public License v2 or later: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Developers

Feel free to fork the repo on Github and submit pull requests if you’d like to make contributions to the theme.

View Underscores for Easy Digital Downloads on Github

Change Log

1.0.4

* Tweak: Word-wrap for HTML <pre> tag to allow scrolling
* Tweak: Customizer setting descriptions, terminology, and sanitization
* Fix: Download taxonomy pagination
* Fix: Site footer customizer option

1.0.3

* Tweak: improved translation strings and updated language files

1.0.2

* New: sanitization for theme customizer user input

1.0.1

* Tweak: style adjustments to EDD product grid for uneven (vertically) products
* Tweak: remove empty markup when no store title and description is used

1.0.0

* first stable release