UC Davis "One" Wordpress Theme

This is a Wordpress theme that uses the styles from UCD IET's Sitefarm One theme. It is used by the main UC Davis Library website, but can also be used by other Wordpress sites that need UC Davis branding.

Using This Theme

With a little bit of setup, this theme can be used in any Wordpress site.

First, Timber 2.0 is a dependency, so you have to install it via composer before activating the theme. This can be done by extending the Wordpress docker image and running a few additional commands:

RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
ENV COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1;
COPY composer.json .
RUN composer install

Next, you have to decide whether you want to build the JS and CSS assets yourself or use a prebuilt version.

Prebuilt Version

To use the prebuilt version, you must download the files from the releases page, unzip, and place them in the appropriate directory of your wordpress installation. e.g.

The first file is the php dependencies, which should be placed in the wordpress root The second file is the theme, and should be placed in the wordpress theme directory

Custom Build

This approach is necessary if you want to extend the block components in a custom plugin or create a single js bundle for your site. To build the JS and CSS yourself:

clone this repository,
npm link the two js directories in /src/public and /src/editor
import them with import "@ucd-lib/brand-theme" and import "@ucd-lib/brand-theme-editor; into your custom plugin, respectively.

For an example, check out the main library website, which loads the theme and all custom plugin assets into a single dynamically-loaded code-splitted bundle.

IMPORTANT NOTE

This theme is highly opinionated since it enables many dynamically-generated custom blocks that correspond to the "atoms" and "molecules" of the UC Davis brand. If you build your content using these blocks, and then want to change to a different theme, that theme will not know how to render these blocks. You will have to write a migration script that converts all these blocks into html before changing themes.

Contributing

In Worpress, best practices are:

a theme controls the presentation of content (CSS styles and template routing); whereas
a plugin is used to control the behavior and features of your WordPress site.

Moreover, this theme should stay as closely aligned to UC Davis style specifications as possible.

After setting up your local docker environment,

Set the UCD_THEME_ENV environmental variabled to dev, which will make sure the non-minified JS/CSS assets are loaded.
To start the block-editor watch process, run npm run watch in /src/editor. More details can be found in the readme in that directory.
To start the public js/scss watch process, run npm run watch in /src/public. More details can be found in the readme in that directory.

Reference and Documentation

The following are very helpful resources when developing this theme:

UCDavisLibrary / ucdlib-theme-wp

readme