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https://github.com/thingsym/wp-theme-boilerplate
Next Generation WordPress Theme Starter Kit
https://github.com/thingsym/wp-theme-boilerplate
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Next Generation WordPress Theme Starter Kit
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/thingsym/wp-theme-boilerplate
- Owner: thingsym
- License: gpl-2.0
- Created: 2019-05-19T08:13:27.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-12-03T10:07:58.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-01T20:23:06.363Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: starter-theme, wordpress, wordpress-boilerplate, wordpress-theme
- Language: PHP
- Homepage: https://blog.thingslabo.com/archives/wp-theme-boilerplate.html
- Size: 982 KB
- Stars: 23
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 18
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# WP Theme Boilerplate
Next Generation WordPress Theme Starter Kit
## Features
* Improve template hierarchy and directory layout
* Implement **WordPress Theme Autoloader**
* Implement class based theme functions
* Implement **Theme hooks**
* Support the Block Editor [Gutenberg](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg)
* Generate your starter theme on **Theme Starter script**
* Theme development environment on **npm scripts**
* Theme testing environment on **composer scripts**
## Getting Started
### 1. clone WP Theme Boilerplate with change directory name to Theme Slug
```shell
git clone https://github.com/thingsym/wp-theme-boilerplate.git mytheme
```
or
Download archive file (zip or tar.gz) form [GitHub Releases page](https://github.com/thingsym/wp-theme-boilerplate/releases)
Note: Change folder name to Theme Slug
### 2. run Theme Starter script with passing Theme name
Note: Run only once.
Note: Theme name does case-sensitive.
```shell
cd mytheme
bash bin/setup.sh --theme 'Mytheme'
```
or (via npm)
```shell
npm run setup -- --theme 'Mytheme'
```
### 3. delete `bin/setup.sh`
### 4. update the theme header in `style.css`
### 5. update or delete `README.md`
### 6. create Git repository and first commit
```shell
git init
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
```
### 7. build Theme development environment
```shell
npm install
```
### 8. make your WordPress theme
### 9. Good luck
## Requirements
* [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/) 5.0+
* [PHP](https://www.php.net/) 5.6+
* [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/)
* [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) or [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/)
* [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/)
### Optional requirements
* [WordPress i18n tools](http://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers)
* [gettext](https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)
* [PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de)
* [PHP_CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer)
* [WordPress Coding Standards](https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards)
* [PHPStan](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan)
* [PHPMD](https://phpmd.org/)
## Directory Layout
```console
|- bin/ # scripts
| |- setup.sh # Theme Starter script
| |- install-wp-tests.sh # install script for WordPress testing environment
| |- reset-wp-tests.sh # reset script for WordPress testing environment
| |- uninstall-wp-tests.sh # uninstall script for WordPress testing environment
|
|- css/ # stylesheet files
| |- block-editor-style.css
| |- editor-style.css
| |- style-rtl.css
| |- style.css
| |- style.min.css
|
|- functions/ # PHP classes and functional php files
| |- custom-header/
| |- customizer/
| |- entry-meta/
| |- post-thumbnail/
| |- setup/
| |- template/
| |- theme-hook/
| |- autoload.php # WordPress Theme Autoloader
| |- loadup.php
|
|- js/ # Javascript files
|
|- languages/ # Translation files
|
|- node_modules/ # npm modules
|
|- src/ # assets for development
| |- js/ # javascript files
| |- scss/ # scss files
|
|- templates/ # template files and partial files
| |- content/ # content part files
| |- page-header/ # page header part files
| |- parts/ # partial files
| |- sidebar/ # sidebar part files
| |- 404.php
| |- archive.php
| |- index.php
| |- page.php
| |- search.php
| |- single.php
|
|- tests/ # testing suite files
| |- js/ # Javascript testing suite
| |- phpunit/ # PHP testing suite
|
|- vendor/ # Composer dependencies
|
|- .editorconfig # Editor config settings
|- .gitignore # gitignore config settings
|- .travis.yml
|- composer.json # Composer package file for theme testing and using PHP libraries
|- functions.php # WordPress functionality file
|- index.php # WordPress file
|- LICENSE # LICENSE file
|- package.json # npm package file for theme development
|- phpcs.ruleset.xml # PHP_CodeSniffer config settings
|- phpmd.ruleset.xml # PHPMD config settings
|- phpstan.neon # PHPStan config settings
|- phpunit.xml # PHPUnit config settings
|- README.md # this file
|- readme.txt # theme readme file for your starter theme
|- screenshot.png # Screenshot image file
|- style.css # main stylesheet file, only theme header
|- webpack.config.js # webpack config settings
```
## Template hierarchical
The top priority template hierarchy is the `templates` directory.
For example, the template hierarchy of the top page is as follows:
1. `templates`/front-page.php
2. front-page.php
3. `templates`/home.php
4. home.php
5. `templates`/index.php
6. index.php
## Theme hooks
Theme hooks adds an action through the `add_action` function.
```php
add_action( 'wp_theme_boilerplate/theme_hook/site/header', [ $this, 'header' ] );
```
Note: Replace `wp_theme_boilerplate` with `your_theme_slug`
### Site
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/header/before
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/header
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/header/after
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/content/before
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/content/after
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/footer/before
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/footer
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/site/footer/after
### Content
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/prepend
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/append
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/index/prepend
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/index/append
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/page/prepend
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/page/append
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/archive/prepend
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/content/archive/append
### Entry
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/entry/meta/header
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/entry/post_thumbnail
* `your_theme_slug`/theme_hook/entry/meta/footer
## Theme Starter script
Theme Starter script generate your starter theme.
Note: Run only once.
```shell
bin/setup.sh --theme 'Mytheme'
```
### Via npm
```shell
npm run setup -- --theme 'Mytheme'
```
## Theme development environment
### Build development environment
```shell
npm install
```
### Run npm script
```shell
npm run
```
### npm scripts task list
* setup
* makepot
* msgfmt:ja
* msgfmt
* sass:style
* sass:style:minify
* sass:block-editor
* rtlcss:rtl
* webpack
* build:css
* build:js
* build:i18n
* build
* lint:css
* lint:scss
* lint:es
* lint:\es:fix
* lint
* stats:css
* bs:server
* bs:server:watch
* bs:proxy
* bs:proxy:watch
* watch:css
* watch:js
* watch
* server
* archive:package
* archive:zip
* archive
## Theme testing environment
### Build testing environment
```shell
composer install
```
### Run composer script
```shell
composer run
```
### composer scripts task list
* phpcs:config-set
* phpcs
* phpcs:warning
* phpcbf
* phpmd
* phpstan
* phpunit
* ci
## Resources (Third-party)
* Based on [Underscores](https://underscores.me/), [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* CSS reset by [normalize.css](https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/), [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
## Contribution
### Patches and Bug Fixes
Small patches and bug reports can be submitted a issue tracker in Github. Forking on Github is another good way. You can send a pull request.
1. Fork [WP Theme Boilerplate](https://github.com/thingsym/wp-theme-boilerplate) from GitHub repository
2. Create a feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Create new Pull Request
## Changelog
### [2.1.0] - 2021.01.07
* replace scss from node-sass to dart-sass
* fix npm scripts for dart-sass
* add dart-sass
* update node package
* add GitHub actions, remove .travis.yml
### [2.0.0] - 2020.08.27
* imporve code with phpcs, phpmd and phpstan
* update testunit configuration
* fix composer.json
### [1.9.0] - 2020.08.26
* fix webpack.config.js, generate compressed and uncompressed files
* fix npm scripts
* update package.json
### [1.8.0] - 2020.08.10
* update package.json
* assign object to variable for child theme
* fix hooks priority
### [1.7.0] - 2020.05.14
* replace array() to short array syntax []
### [1.6.0] - 2020.04.23
* fix css header
* fix npm scripts
* fix setup.sh
* move test case directory
* bump up phpunit version 7.x
* add version number with zip archive
### [1.5.0] - 2020.03.24
* move template parts files to page-header dir
* add non minified javascript files for theme review
* change javascript files bundle from webpack to minify
* move javascript files to src/javascript/main directory
* exclude node_modules in test scope
* remove README.md in zip archive
### [1.4.0] - 2019.11.19
* fix Theme Starter script
* add style-rtl.css
* update .pot
* fix Requires at least to 5.0
* fix header image and logo image size
* add archive script with npm script
### [1.3.0] - 2019.10.21
* fix test case
* bundle javascript files
* add webpack, replace from uglify-es
* move javascript files to src directory
* fix error content
* remove paginated with archive
### [1.2.0] - 2019.09.30
* add Class Editor
### [1.1.2] - 2019.09.19
* fix site-info
* add editor-style.scss
### [1.1.1] - 2019.07.30
* replace from uglifyjs to uglify-es
* fix header container
### [1.1.0] - 2019.07.11
* add Composer autoloader
* add editor-style.css
* add test case
### [1.0.0] - 2019.05.19
* initial release
## License
Licensed under [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
## Author
[thingsym](https://github.com/thingsym)
Copyright (c) 2019-2020 by thingsym