Sage

Sage is a WordPress starter theme with a modern development workflow.

Features

• Sass for stylesheets
• Modern JavaScript
• Webpack for compiling assets, optimizing images, and concatenating and minifying files
• Browsersync for synchronized browser testing
• Blade as a templating engine
• Controller for passing data to Blade templates
• CSS framework (optional): Bootstrap 4, Bulma, Foundation, Tachyons
• Font Awesome (optional)

See a working example at roots-example-project.com.

Requirements

Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:

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

Theme installation

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

# @ app/themes/ or wp-content/themes/
$ composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name dev-master

During theme installation you will have options to update style.css theme headers, select a CSS framework, add Font Awesome, and configure Browsersync.

Theme structure

themes/your-theme-name/   # → Root of your Sage based theme
├── app/                  # → Theme PHP
│   ├── controllers/      # → Controller files
│   ├── admin.php         # → Theme customizer setup
│   ├── filters.php       # → Theme filters
│   ├── helpers.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
│   │   ├── build/        # → Webpack and ESLint config
│   │   ├── fonts/        # → Theme fonts
│   │   ├── images/       # → Theme images
│   │   ├── scripts/      # → Theme JS
│   │   └── styles/       # → 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
└── 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.

Theme development

• Run yarn from the theme directory to install dependencies
• Update resources/assets/config.json settings:
  • devUrl should reflect your local development hostname
  • publicPath should reflect your WordPress folder structure (/wp-content/themes/sage for non-Bedrock installs)

Build commands

• yarn run start — Compile assets when file changes are made, start Browsersync session

• yarn run build — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory

• yarn run build:production — Compile assets for production

• NB! dist folder is not gitignored. So, always run yarn build:production before commiting your changes.

Documentation

• Sage documentation
• Controller documentation