bueltge/wordpress-basis-theme

A simple Theme to start a new WordPress Theme

WordPress Basis Theme

Basis provides a highly customizable starting point for your theme development, _(*1)

Descripton

Basis has been built to make theme development for WordPress easier. If you are an experienced theme developer or a total beginner, Basis provides a highly customizable starting point for your theme development and give your the typicly development with WordPress by use Hooks. Basis comes with a pre-defined set of templates, no styles or style-framework for pure development. The theme is widget-ready and introduces a number of custom functions., _(*2)

Basis has an long tradition, development and maintenance since 2007 - see on the project page. The new version with the codename namespace ;) is usable, but changed in the course of time., _(*3)

• The plugin have a lot of hooks, always startet with wp_basis_
  • also the next string is the string of the template wp_basis_single_
  • the next string on the hook logic is 'before' or 'after' an element in the markup, sometimes 'content' - wp_basis_single_before_content
• the functions.php is current only for check the functions, include a minimium from the often used defaults;
  • older solutions do you find in the classes-old in branch stacker

Installation

Requirements

• WordPress (also Multisite) version 3.3 and later (tested at 3.4)
• PHP 5.3 (use PHP namespaces)

Grunt usage

What is Grunt?

Grunt is a JavaScript task runner. For a detailed description see Grunt.js homepage., _(*4)

Requirements

• Node.js

Installation

It's quite simple. After Node.js installation, just run the following command (in the theme's folder, where the package.json file is located):, _(*5)

npm install

The Node Package Management (npm) will read the package.json and will install all the packages listed in the devDependencies object., _(*6)

Usage

By default, there's one main task configured: default. For configuration see Gruntfile.js. In the command line, you can run, _(*7)

grunt

Grunt will watch all JavaScript and CSS files within the assets folder. If a file is changed and saved, Grunt will run jshint for JavaScript files and cssmin for CSS files automatically. Feel free to edit the configuration :), _(*8)

Other Notes

Licence

Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it's released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog., _(*9)

Contact & Feedback

The plugin is designed and developed current by me (Frank Bültge), _(*10)

Please let me know if you like the plugin or you hate it or whatever ... Please fork it, add an issue for ideas and bugs., _(*11)

Disclaimer

I'm German and my English might be gruesome here and there. So please be patient with me and let me know of typos or grammatical farts. Thanks, _(*12)