WordPlate Boilerplate

The website is built with a mordern WP development stack (WordPlate).

Features

• Sass for stylesheets
• Modern JavaScript
• Laravel Mix for compiling assets and concatenating and minifying files
• Browsersync for synchronized browser testing
• Blade as a templating engine
• Bootstrap 4

Requirements

Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:

• WordPress >= 5.4
• PHP >= 7.2.0 (with php-mbstring enabled)
• Composer
• Node.js >= 8.0.0
• Yarn

Theme setup

Edit public/theme/sitename/app/setup.php to enable or disable theme features, setup navigation menus, post thumbnail sizes, and sidebars.

Theme development

• Setup vhost with a domain (for example: sitename.test)
• Update BROWSER_SYNC_HOST to the same value with the domain above (http://sitename.test)
• composer install - Install PHP packages
• npm install - Install Node packages
• npm run watch — Compile assets when file changes are made, start Browsersync session
• npm run dev — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory
• npm run prod — Compile assets for production