Is the default style mostly vanilla? Or is there a version that is styled?

[sidonaldson]

I think i know the answer, there aren't very many tailwind classes in the generated theme, assuming it's a vanilla boilerplate. Is there a different version that does include a basic template styles for comments,links, menus etc?

[gregsullivan]

Hi Simon—Thanks for your question!

As you likely suspected, there is not another version, and this is by design. My experience with other starter themes was that I wasted time with each new project disabling styles I didn't need, and that it was more effective to start with a blank slate. This is in large part because of the sorts of projects I was working on: Agency work with supplied designs, where there was rarely meaningful overlap from one project to another.

At some point I'll have more in the way of video tutorials showing styles being applied to various parts of the theme, but I'm tentatively waiting on the CSS-only version of Tailwind Typography to commit to any full-length videos.

[sidonaldson]

I understand your reasoning. I suspect my confusion was due to following the commits in varia and expecting the new install of _tw to look the same so I wondered if something was broken.

Having a good vanilla boilerplate makes sense, esp if just developing a website of pages and not using the full Wordpress system.

A nice stretch goal would be an optional flag in the generator to include a more complete basic style!

Nice work!