ALPS Gutenberg Plugin

This plugin is created to support the ALPS for Wordpress, to provide Gutenberg Blocks with ALPS markup.

This project is based on Create Guten Block.

Local development

👉 Init

On first run of the plugin locally you should install required dependencies

npm install
composer install

Composer could be downloaded from https://getcomposer.org/

Link to the WP installation

You should link the build/alps-gutenberg-blocks into wp-content/plugins of the local WP.

ln -s path/to/plugin/ path/to/wp/wp-content/plugins/alps-gutenberg-blocks

The alps-gutenbers-blocks directory should appear in wp-content/plugins.

👉 npm run dev

• Use to compile and run the blocks in development mode.
• Watches for any changes and reports back any errors in your code.

👉 npm run project:build-blocks

• Use to build production code for your blocks inside dist folder.
• Runs once and reports back the gzip file sizes of the produced code.

👉 npm run project:set-version

• Use to sync the current version in code with CHANGELOG.md
• Sets the plugin version in package.json, plugin.php, commits the changes and creates a related git tag.
• Push result to the GitHub to run the build and release processes.

i18n

👉 npm run i18n:update-pot

• Use to generate master file for internationalization.
• Scans the project files for localizable strings and dumps them to the languages/alps-gutenberg-blocks.pot
• Open alps-gutenberg-blocks.pot with POEdit to create new and update existing locale files with string translations.
• Translation files should be named as languages/alps-gutenberg-blocks-{lang_LANG}.po
• Set language code in en_US format.

👉 npm run i18n:create-json

• Use to convert .po files to .json
• Iterates over each .po file in languages and generates .json file with strings.
• .po file names should be like alps-gutenberg-blocks-en_US.po
• .json files are used for js scripts.

Plugin release

👉 npm run wp:plugin:build

• Use on Continuous Integration server to create a plugin archive for distribution
• Builds plugin artifacts in build directory
• alps-gutenberg-blocks directory with plugin files
• alps-gutenberg-blocks.zip – plugin distribution archive
• alps-gutenberg-blocks.json – plugin metadata for Wordpress updates

👉 npm run wp:plugin:release

• Use on Continuous Integration server to publish the new version
• Uploads alps-gutenberg-blocks.zip and alps-gutenberg-blocks.json to CDN
• Creates GitHub release for manual installation

CI Config

Build script uses Environment Variables to get the config