generator-themeplate --

"Quickly scafold a complete WordPress site project in seconds!"

Features

• Fully-fleshed out package
• Follows WordPress standards
• Streamlined with Gulp
  • Sass
  • Autoprefixer
  • Typescript
  • Babel
  • Rollup
  • Sourcemaps
  • Minification
  • Browsersync
  • Linters
  • Localization
• Powered by ThemePlate
• Font Awesome v5 (optional)
• CSS Framework options
  • Tailwind CSS v3
  • Twitter Bootstrap v5
  • Blank Slate (with normalize.css)
• Pre-included boilerplates and functions
  • Base theme template files
  • Compatibility checks
  • Theme Features
  • Navigations
  • Widgets
  • Scripts and Styles
  • Actions and Filters
  • Plugins (required/recommended)
  • Custom forms/fields (metaboxes)
  • Custom post types and taxonomies
  • Clean navbar walker
  • Google tracking codes
  • Asynchronous loading and deferred execution of scripts

Requirements

• Node.js: Install from the NodeJS website.
• Gulp: Run npm install -g gulp-cli
• Yeoman: Run npm install -g yo

Installation

npm install -g generator-themeplate

Usage

Setup

1. In the desired project directory, initiate the generator

yo themeplate

2. Simply follow the prompts and enter the details

? Project Name:
? Project URI:
? Author:
? Author Email:
? Author URI:
? Description:
? Function Prefix:
? Class Prefix:
? Constant Prefix:
? Use Font Awesome? (Y/n)
? CSS Framework:
? License:
? License URI:
? Local Server:

Development

1. Navigate to the generated directory

2. Run gulp

• Builds assets
  • Sass and Javascript/Typescript compiled
  • Images copied with WebP format
• Watches files and assets for changes
• Starts Browsersync

Available Tasks

• npm run lint and npm run fix - Run scripts and styles against the coding rules set
• gulp pot - Generate a POT file for the localization
• gulp bump - Bump version in files; package and assets

Bump Options

• --to-type={major|minor}
• --to-version={#}

Production

1. Run gulp build --production

• Assets minified (images optimized; loseless)

2. Set the theme debug constant to false

• Specifies to serve the minified assets
• Line is in the theme's functions.php file

3. Move out the plugin folder inside the theme

• Standard and default path at wp-content/plugins
• Plugin folder is named the same with the theme folder

License

Copyright © 2023 Gene Alyson Fortunado Torcende

Licensed under MIT.