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Designing WordPress themes the old-fashioned way is time-consuming and error-prone. Automating the build process allows us to integrate best practices into our workflow while saving time. This project is a starter kit for developing highly optimized WordPress themes with Gulp, npm, and Sass, among other tools. This is not meant to be a starter theme or framework (although I have included a minimum viable theme to demonstrate some of the possibilities). It is, instead, a kind of project scaffolding and example workflow for modern and efficient WordPress theme development. The latest version of this starter kit features a modular Gulp file design inspired by Dan Tello's excellent gulp-starter. Configuration is isolated from the tasks themselves to make it easier to change paths and modify settings. This approach is slightly more complicated than what I originally outlined on my blog but also far more powerful.
Features
- It doesn't try and do too much
- You should be able to easily drop your own theme into the src folder and start hacking without much additional setup
- Documentation and comments in the code assume a novice level of understanding
- Builds on existing WordPress and Gulp best practices without doing anything too crazy
- Includes several JS and Sass integrations to show you some of the possibilities. All of these are easily removed
- This kind of workflow will save you a ton of time and help you make better, more readily-optimized themes once you learn how it all works
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