picus-starter-theme

PICUS Starter Theme is a WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate, gulp, Bower, and Bootstrap Sass, that will help you make better themes.

Requirements

Prerequisite	How to check	How to install
PHP >= 5.4.x	php -v	php.net
Node.js >= 4.5	node -v	nodejs.org
gulp >= 3.8.10	gulp -v	npm install -g gulp
Bower >= 1.3.12	bower -v	npm install -g bower

For more installation notes, refer to the Install gulp and Bower section in this document.

Features

• gulp build script that compiles both Sass, checks for JavaScript errors, optimizes images, and concatenates and minifies files
• BrowserSync for keeping multiple browsers and devices synchronized while testing, along with injecting updated CSS and JS into your browser while you're developing
• Bower for front-end package management
• asset-builder for the JSON file based asset pipeline
• Bootstrap
• Posts use the hNews microformat

Theme installation

Install PICUS Starter Theme by copying the project into a new folder within your WordPress themes directory.

Make sure Composer has been installed before moving on.

Install PICUS Starter Theme using Composer from your WordPress themes directory (replace your-theme-name below with the name of your theme):

# @ example.com/site/web/app/themes/
$ composer create-project picus/picus your-theme-name 1.0.0

Theme setup

Edit lib/setup.php to enable or disable theme features, setup navigation menus, post thumbnail sizes, post formats, and sidebars.

Theme development

Sage uses gulp as its build system and Bower to manage front-end packages.

Install gulp and Bower

Building the theme requires node.js. We recommend you update to the latest version of npm: npm install -g npm@latest.

From the command line:

1. Install gulp and Bower globally with npm install -g gulp bower
2. Navigate to the theme directory, then run npm install
3. Run bower install

You now have all the necessary dependencies to run the build process.

Available gulp commands

• gulp — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory
• gulp watch — Compile assets when file changes are made
• gulp --production — Compile assets for production (no source maps).

Using BrowserSync

To use BrowserSync during gulp watch you need to update devUrl at the bottom of assets/manifest.json to reflect your local development hostname.

For example, if your local development URL is http://project-name.dev you would update the file to read:

...
  "config": {
    "devUrl": "http://project-name.dev"
  }
...

If your local development URL looks like http://localhost:8888/project-name/ you would update the file to read:

...
  "config": {
    "devUrl": "http://localhost:8888/project-name/"
  }
...

LICENSE

MIT License - PICUS