THEME: TotalBlank – 2025

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TotalBlank - 2025

Donations: ​https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XXVWEFHCH2VT6. TotalBlank is a completely clean starter theme for WordPress. No scripts, no styles, no unnecessary files. Only the essential minimum to start working on your own theme. All you need to replace is the theme information in style.css and the screenshot.

Theme URL - ​https://github.com/StellarHermitUa/TotalBlank
Author URL - ​https://github.com/StellarHermitUa

Trac Browser - https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/totalblank/2025
WordPress.org - ​https://wordpress.org/themes/totalblank/

SVN - ​https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/totalblank/2025
ZIP - ​https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/totalblank.2025.zip?nostats=1
Live preview – ​https://playground.wordpress.net/#…

History:

Ticket	Summary	Status	Resolution	Owner
#214160	THEME: TotalBlank – 2025	closed	not-approved	kafleg
(this ticket)
#215429	THEME: TotalBlank – 2025.1	closed	not-approved	bijayyadav
#226097	THEME: TotalBlank – 2025.2	closed	not-approved	acosmin

Theme Check Results:

• RECOMMENDED: No reference to register_block_pattern was found in the theme. Theme authors are encouraged to implement custom block patterns as a transition to block themes.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to register_block_style was found in the theme. Theme authors are encouraged to implement new block styles as a transition to block themes.
• RECOMMENDED: The theme doesn't have comment pagination code in it. Use paginate_comments_links() or the_comments_navigation or the_comments_pagination or next_comments_link() and previous_comments_link() to add comment pagination.
• RECOMMENDED: Could not find the comment-reply script enqueued.
• RECOMMENDED: Could not find comments_template. See: ​comments_template

   <?php comments_template( $file, $separate_comments ); ?>
  

• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_editor_style() was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement editor styling, so as to make the editor content match the resulting post output in the theme, for a better user experience.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to nav_menu's was found in the theme. Note that if your theme has a menu bar, it is required to use the WordPress nav_menu functionality for it.
• RECOMMENDED The theme doesn't have post pagination code in it. Use posts_nav_link() or paginate_links() or the_posts_pagination() or the_posts_navigation() or next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() to add post pagination.
• RECOMMENDED No reference to the_post_thumbnail() was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality instead of using custom fields for thumbnails.
• RECOMMENDED No reference to post-thumbnails was found in the theme. If the theme has a thumbnail like functionality, it should be implemented with add_theme_support( "post-thumbnails" ) in the functions.php file.
• RECOMMENDED .sticky css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED .bypostauthor css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED .alignleft css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED .alignright css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED .aligncenter css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED .wp-caption css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED .wp-caption-text css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED .gallery-caption css class is recommended in your theme css.
• RECOMMENDED This theme doesn't seem to display tags. Modify it to display tags in appropriate locations.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( "custom-header", $args ) was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality if using an image for the header.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( "custom-background", $args ) was found in the theme. If the theme uses background images or solid colors for the background, then it is recommended that the theme implement this functionality.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( "custom-logo", $args ) was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( "html5", $args ) was found in the theme. It is strongly recommended that the theme implement this functionality.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( "responsive-embeds" ) was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( "align-wide" ) was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality.
• RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( "wp-block-styles" ) was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality.
• RECOMMENDED This theme contains no sidebars/widget areas. See ​Widgets API

[kafleg]

Hi!
I have had a quick look at the theme and at this point, it does not follow the requirements.

The Theme Review Team does not hard reject themes, -we want you to resubmit your theme, but we need you to read the requirements more carefully.

If the requirements are unclear, let us know so that we can continue to improve them.

When a ticket is closed as not approved, it loses its position in the review queue.

When the update is submitted, a new ticket is created at the end of the queue.
​https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/
​https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/how-to-do-a-review-draft/
​https://wordpress.tv/2017/09/27/ganga-kafle-think-before-you-post-themes-on-wordpress-org-wordpress-org

Use this plugin to check your theme,
​https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/

Use this upload form to submit your update: ​https://wordpress.org/themes/upload/

The theme should work for the core WordPress features like, menu, background image, accessibility features, etc. So, i request you to check the theme handbook, other already live theme, and also the video that you can find in the provided resources.

You can always ask in the ​#themes channel on ​WordPress slack if you have any confusion regarding the issues mentioned above. Or you can also ​watch this video and know more about the ​guidelines.

Thank you
KafleG