Question

I’m trying to create a theme which renders nothing but allows access to the feed url and the admin page. This is a continuation of this question: Make Only Accessible to Feed URL on a WordPress Site.

I’ve created empty style.css with the comment header as follows.

style.css

/*
    Theme Name: Only Feeds
    Description: Renders only feeds.
    Version: 0.0.1
    Template: twentyeleven
*/

And created the following empty files under the theme directory.

Added Files

search.php
searchform.php
showcase.php
sidebar.php
sidebar-footer.php
sidebar-page.php
tag.php
single.php
style.css
404.php
archive.php
author.php
category.php
comments.php
content.php
content-aside.php
content-featured.php
content-gallery.php
content-image.php
content-intro.php
content-link.php
content-page.php
content-quote.php
content-single.php
content-status.php
footer.php
functions.php
header.php
image.php
index.php
page.php

It seems to be working so far but I noticed that when I forgot to create the empty single.php, navigation text appeared in a single page. That makes me concern if I’m missing something or not.

Also if Twenty-eleven gets updated and happens to add some files, will there be a page that outputs something?

Answer 1

The only page you need is index.php and style.css, just don’t create it as a child theme but as a stand alone theme. This will work because WordPress automatically provides feeds, this functionality does not belong to any one theme.