Sage

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

Features

• Sass for stylesheets
• ES6 for JavaScript
• Webpack for compiling assets, optimizing images, and concatenating and minifying files
• BrowserSync for synchronized browser testing
• Bootstrap 4 for a front-end framework (can be removed or replaced)
• Template inheritance with the theme wrapper

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

Requirements

Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:

• PHP >= 5.5.x
• Composer
• Node.js >= 4.5

Theme installation

Install Sage 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 roots/sage your-theme-name dev-master

Theme structure

themes/theme-name/        # → Root of your Sage based theme
├── assets                # → Front-end assets
│   ├── config.json       # → Settings for compiled assets
│   ├── fonts/            # → Theme fonts
│   ├── images/           # → Theme images
│   ├── scripts/          # → Theme JS
│   └── styles/           # → Theme stylesheets
├── composer.json         # → Autoloading for `src/` files
├── composer.lock         # → Composer lock file (never manually edit)
├── dist/                 # → Built theme assets (never manually edit)
├── functions.php         # → Never manually edit
├── index.php             # → Never manually edit
├── node_modules/         # → Node.js packages (never manually edit)
├── package.json          # → Node.js dependencies and scripts
├── screenshot.png        # → Theme screenshot for WP admin
├── src/                  # → Theme PHP
├── style.css             # → Theme meta information
├── templates/            # → Theme templates
│   ├── layouts/          # → Base templates
│   └── partials/         # → Partial templates
├── vendor/               # → Composer packages (never manually edit)
├── watch.js              # → Webpack/BrowserSync watch config
└── webpack.config.js     # → Webpack config

Theme setup

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

Theme development

Sage uses Webpack as a build tool and npm to manage front-end packages.

Install dependencies

From the command line on your host machine (not on your Vagrant development box), navigate to the theme directory then run npm install:

# @ example.com/site/web/app/themes/your-theme-name
$ npm install

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

Available build commands

• npm run build — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory
• npm run start — Compile assets when file changes are made, start BrowserSync session
• npm run build:production — Compile assets for production

Using BrowserSync

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

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

...
  "devUrl": "https://project-name.dev",
...

If you are not using Bedrock, you should also update publicPath to reflect your folder structure:

...
  "output": {
    "path": "dist",
    "publicPath": "/wp-content/themes/sage/dist/"
  }
...

Documentation

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

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

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