What is the best base to start from for a custom wordpress theme

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    jsnydercreative · Member ·

    I have recently taken over the management of a medium sized company’s corporate website.
    and I am in charge of building a totally new, revamped, website.

    The old site was wordpress, and they would like the new one to be as well.

    is there a recommended base to start from in doing a fully custom theme?

    The old dev team used roots as a base (seemingly poorly)

    for the new site I have looked at
    roots, bones, thesis, and genesis
    as potential bases to start a custom theme from.

    At first i leaned to roots for it really clean rewrites (the way it handles the url for all assets, cleaning up the search, and hiding the fact that its a wordpress site)
    but it seems to be slower, and other issues have popped up in certain hosts.

    as for hosting we should use wp-engine right?
    unless we chose genesis as a base then use synthesis?

    I really want a good base to start from a good base as i want this site to run perfectly.

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