WP theme frameworks?
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I've tried a couple of frameworks, but personally I don't like them.
Like others have mentioned, I find that I have the most control and the most confidence to implement whatever I want when I develop a theme from scratch.
I start with the old-school and outdated Sandbox theme (http://wordpress.org/extend/the... and I strip out what I don't want and then get to hacking applying my own css, html, js etc... on top of it.
I wind up needing to add a few custom code snippets to the theme's function.php file in order to make it work with some of the more modern WP features (menus, featured images/thumbnails, style-editor.css, etc...) but to me that's no big deal.
What I eventually did was make my own personally-modified version of the Sanbox theme which I use as a starting point for all of my WP builds.
When I find another theme or theme framework that has some kind of functionality that I need, I generally try to copy it over into my own theme rather than build around someone else's work.
As others have said, I find it more difficult to wade through and make sense of someone else's code than to build my own. I think that's a common thing for a lot of developers.