Central College Departments Wordpress Theme

A WordPress theme for Central College departments to use as a department website.

Sites

• This theme is available for department sites managed at https://departments.central.edu. Contact Jordan Bohr to upgrade or make changes to your site.

Deployment

This theme is currently designed to be manually deployed to a production server.

Central College API integration

Department directory pages can be created using the Central College people API. More information can be found in the "Site Settings" tab of your site.

Vagrant

To easily spin up a development server to work on this theme, we've included Vagrant configuration files.

1. [Optional] Include a WordPress XML export of your site in the root of the theme named wp-import-data.xml. Vagrant will populate the development server with this data.
2. At the command line, navigate to the vagrant folder.
3. Run vagrant up to initate a test server.

Vagrant requires:

• Vagrant to be installed - https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/installation
• VirtualBox to be installed - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

WordPress beta testing

To enable testing with beta versions or release candidates of WordPress, the WordPress beta tester plugin is installed in the Vagrant test box.

Grunt Integration

You can use the Grunt javascript task runner (https://gruntjs.com/) with this project. It currently performs the following commands:

• Watches all .php files and uses SSH to transfer to a remote server.
• Watches all .css files and minifies them.

Grunt Configuration

1. Install the Grunt CLI if you haven't already: https://gruntjs.com/getting-started
2. Run npm install to install the project dependencies
3. Run Grunt with the grunt command.