wpextra/gili

Elegant WordPress starter theme with a modern development workflow

Gili

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Gili is a WordPress starter theme with a modern development workflow., _(*2)

Features

• Sass for stylesheets
• Modern JavaScript
• [Gulp]
• [Twig] as a templating engine
• Bridge MVC for passing data to handle custom functions
• CSS framework: Bootstrap 4

See a working example at https://demo.wpextra.co/gili., _(*3)

Requirements

Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:, _(*4)

• WordPress >= 4.7
• PHP >= 7.1.3 (with php-mbstring enabled)
• Composer
• Node.js >= 6.9.x
• Yarn / NPM

Theme installation

Install Sage using Composer from your WordPress themes directory (replace your-theme-name below with the name of your theme):, _(*5)

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

To install the latest development version of Sage, add dev-master to the end of the command:, _(*6)

$ composer create-project wpextra/gili 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., _(*7)

Theme structure

themes/your-theme-name/   # → Root of your Sage based theme
├── app/                  # → Theme PHP
│   ├── apis/             # → Controller files
│   ├── controllers/      # → Controller files
│   ├── models/           # → Controller files
│   ├── repository/       # → Controller files
│   ├── persistent/       # → Controller files
│   ├── elements/         # → Your element block
│   │   ├── blocks/       # → 
│   │   ├── header/       # → 
│   │   ├── footer/       # → 
│   │   └── popups/       # → 
│   ├── config.php        # → Theme customizer setup
│   ├── filters.php       # → Theme filters
│   ├── helpers.php       # → Helper functions
│   ├── kernel.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
│   │   ├── fonts/        # → Theme fonts
│   │   ├── images/       # → Theme images
│   │   ├── scripts/      # → Theme JS
│   │   └── scss/         # → 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
└── index.php             # → 
└── archive.php           # → 
└── page.php              # → 
└── single.php            # → 
└── 404.php               # → 
└── functions.php         # → 
└── style.scss            # → 
└── 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., _(*8)

Theme development

• Run yarn from the theme directory to install dependencies
• Update resources/assets/config.json settings:

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

Documentation

• Sage documentation
• Bridge documentation

Contributing

Contributions are welcome from everyone., _(*9)

Gold sponsors

Help support our open-source development efforts by :, _(*10)

Community

Keep track of development and community news., _(*11)