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## About Sage Sage is a productivity-driven WordPress starter theme with a modern development workflow. **The `main` branch currently tracks Sage 10 which is in active development. Looking for Sage 9 or the latest Sage 10 beta release? [See releases](https://github.com/roots/sage/releases).** ## Features - Harness the power of [Laravel](https://laravel.com) and its available packages thanks to [Acorn](https://github.com/roots/acorn). - Clean, efficient theme templating utilizing [Laravel Blade](https://laravel.com/docs/master/blade). - Lightning fast frontend development workflow powered by [Bud](https://budjs.netlify.app/). - Out of the box support for [TailwindCSS](https://tailwindcss.com/). ## Requirements Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on: - [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/) >= 5.4 - [PHP](https://secure.php.net/manual/en/install.php) >= 7.3.0 (with [`php-mbstring`](https://secure.php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php) enabled) - [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/download/) - [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/) >= 16 - [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install) ## Theme installation Install Sage using Composer from your WordPress themes directory (replace `your-theme-name` below with the name of your theme): ```sh # @ app/themes/ or wp-content/themes/ $ composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name ``` To install the latest development version of Sage, add `dev-main` to the end of the command: ```sh $ composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name dev-main ``` ## Theme structure ```sh themes/your-theme-name/ # → Root of your Sage based theme ├── app/ # → Theme PHP │ ├── Providers/ # → Service providers │ ├── View/ # → View models │ ├── admin.php # → Theme customizer setup │ ├── filters.php # → Theme filters │ ├── helpers.php # → Helper functions │ └── setup.php # → Theme setup ├── bootstrap/ # → Acorn bootstrap │ ├── cache/ # → Acorn cache location (never edit) │ └── app.php # → Acorn application bootloader ├── config/ # → Config files │ ├── app.php # → Application configuration │ ├── assets.php # → Asset configuration │ ├── filesystems.php # → Filesystems configuration │ ├── logging.php # → Logging configuration │ └── view.php # → View configuration ├── composer.json # → Autoloading for `app/` files ├── composer.lock # → Composer lock file (never edit) ├── public/ # → Built theme assets (never edit) ├── functions.php # → Theme bootloader ├── index.php # → Theme template wrapper ├── node_modules/ # → Node.js packages (never edit) ├── package.json # → Node.js dependencies and scripts ├── resources/ # → Theme assets and templates │ ├── fonts/ # → Theme fonts │ ├── images/ # → Theme images │ ├── scripts/ # → Theme javascript │ ├── styles/ # → Theme stylesheets │ └── views/ # → Theme templates │ ├── components/ # → Component templates │ ├── forms/ # → Form templates │ ├── layouts/ # → Base templates │ └── partials/ # → Partial templates ├── screenshot.png # → Theme screenshot for WP admin ├── storage/ # → Storage location for cache (never edit) ├── style.css # → Theme meta information ├── vendor/ # → Composer packages (never edit) └── bud.config.js # → Bud configuration ``` ## 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 `bud.config.js` with your local dev URL ### Build commands - `yarn dev` — Compile assets when file changes are made, start Browsersync session - `yarn build` — Compile assets for production ## Documentation - [Sage documentation](https://docs.roots.io/sage/10.x/installation/) ## Contributing Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/roots/guidelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) to help you get started. ## Sage sponsors Help support our open-source development efforts by [becoming a sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/roots).

## Community Keep track of development and community news. - Participate on the [Roots Discourse](https://discourse.roots.io/) - Follow [@rootswp on Twitter](https://twitter.com/rootswp) - Read and subscribe to the [Roots Blog](https://roots.io/blog/) - Subscribe to the [Roots Newsletter](https://roots.io/subscribe/) - Listen to the [Roots Radio podcast](https://roots.io/podcast/)