Opinions and recommendations on the best barebones base theme

Preamble I’m finding myself building more and more WP sites “from scratch” as it were (ie: ignoring any theme designs out there and just creating a design wireframe purely on the needs of the client. Then I go out and either shop around a theme that has the right basic structure, or I start with … Read more

Is it possible to define a template for a custom post type within a plugin independent of the active theme?

I’m writing a plugin to manage data about open-source projects. I developed an object model and have successfully created all custom post types and taxonomies, as well as implemented the correct capabilities/roles using the Members plugin. The appropriate users can create, modify, and delete their own posts, and administrators can approve them, as well as modify and delete anyone’s posts.