Birds and WordPress Core

Birds is a product made of a theme, a focused plugin, and the WordPress Core beneath them.

The boundary matters. It lets Birds offer a polished, immediate front end without pretending that a feed needs to replace WordPress.

The Theme

Birds Theme owns the visible experience: feed, thread, topics, archives, search, responsive layout, and the Classic Mac OS 9-inspired visual language. It presents ordinary WordPress content as a living stream.

The Core plugin

Birds Core adds the small set of operations that make the front end feel complete: publish, edit, move to trash, open or close replies, and manage replies according to WordPress capabilities and safeguards.

The WordPress boundary

Posts, Comments, Users, Categories, Search, Archives, permissions, nonces, and administration remain native WordPress. There is no custom database table and no proprietary content model. Disable the plugin and the Theme remains a usable feed and thread presentation.

That is the point of the architecture: a distinctive experience on top, a durable platform underneath, and a small enough boundary to understand.