open-sage

open-sage is the theme for the BCcampus open site, based on Sage.

Features

Sass for stylesheets
Modern JavaScript
Webpack for compiling assets, optimizing images, and concatenating and minifying files
Browsersync for synchronized browser testing
Blade as a templating engine
Controller for passing data to Blade templates
CSS framework (optional): Bootstrap 4, Bulma, Foundation, Tachyons, Tailwind

See a working example at roots-example-project.com.

Requirements

Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:

WordPress >= 4.7
PHP >= 7.1.3 (with php-mbstring enabled)
Composer
Node.js >= 8.0.0
Yarn

Theme installation

Install Sage using Composer from your WordPress themes directory (replace your-theme-name below with the name of your theme):

# @ app/themes/ or wp-content/themes/
$ composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name

To install the latest development version of Sage, add dev-master to the end of the command:

$ composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name dev-master

During theme installation you will have options to update style.css theme headers, select a CSS framework, and configure Browsersync.

Theme structure

themes/your-theme-name/   # → Root of your Sage based theme
├── app/                  # → Theme PHP
│   ├── Controllers/      # → Controller files
│   ├── admin.php         # → Theme customizer setup
│   ├── filters.php       # → Theme filters
│   ├── helpers.php       # → Helper functions
│   └── setup.php         # → Theme setup
├── composer.json         # → Autoloading for `app/` files
├── composer.lock         # → Composer lock file (never edit)
├── dist/                 # → Built theme assets (never edit)
├── node_modules/         # → Node.js packages (never edit)
├── package.json          # → Node.js dependencies and scripts
├── resources/            # → Theme assets and templates
│   ├── assets/           # → Front-end assets
│   │   ├── config.json   # → Settings for compiled assets
│   │   ├── build/        # → Webpack and ESLint config
│   │   ├── fonts/        # → Theme fonts
│   │   ├── images/       # → Theme images
│   │   ├── scripts/      # → Theme JS
│   │   └── styles/       # → Theme stylesheets
│   ├── functions.php     # → Composer autoloader, theme includes
│   ├── index.php         # → Never manually edit
│   ├── screenshot.png    # → Theme screenshot for WP admin
│   ├── style.css         # → Theme meta information
│   └── views/            # → Theme templates
│       ├── layouts/      # → Base templates
│       └── partials/     # → Partial templates
└── vendor/               # → Composer packages (never edit)

Theme setup

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

Theme development

Run yarn from the theme directory to install dependencies
Update resources/assets/config.json settings:
- devUrl should reflect your local development hostname
- publicPath should reflect your WordPress folder structure (/wp-content/themes/sage for non-Bedrock installs)

Build commands

yarn start — Compile assets when file changes are made, start Browsersync session
yarn build — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory
yarn build:production — Compile assets for production