Sage

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

Sage 9 is in active development and is currently in beta. The master branch tracks Sage 9 development. If you want a stable version, use the latest Sage 8 release.

Features

• Sass for stylesheets
• ES6 for JavaScript
• Webpack for compiling assets, optimizing images, and concatenating and minifying files
• Browsersync for synchronized browser testing
• Laravel Blade as a templating engine
• Controller for passing data to Blade templates
• CSS framework options:
  • Bootstrap 4
  • Foundation
  • Tachyons
  • None (blank slate)
• 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 >= 5.6.4
• 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 the options to:

• Update theme headers (theme name, description, author, etc.)
• Select a CSS framework (Bootstrap, Foundation, Tachyons, none)
• Add Font Awesome
• Configure Browsersync (path to theme, local development URL)

Theme structure

themes/your-theme-name/   # → Root of your Sage based theme
├── app/                  # → Theme PHP
│   ├── lib/Sage/         # → Blade implementation, asset manifest
│   ├── 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
│   ├── controllers/      # → Controller files
│   ├── 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

Documentation

Sage 8 documentation is available at https://roots.io/sage/docs/.

Sage 9 documentation is currently in progress and can be viewed at https://github.com/roots/docs/tree/sage-9/sage.

Controller documentation is available at https://github.com/soberwp/controller#usage.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started.

Community

Keep track of development and community news.

• Participate on the Roots Discourse
• Follow @rootswp on Twitter
• Read and subscribe to the Roots Blog
• Subscribe to the Roots Newsletter
• Listen to the Roots Radio podcast