Eightshift WordPress Boilerplate

This repository contains all the tools you need to start building a modern WordPress project, using all the latest front end development tools.

📚 Table of contents

For more documentation details follow this link.

Here's why you should use Eightshift Boilerplate for your next project.

OOP - All code is written following the latest object-oriented programming paradigms
Webpack - Modern bundling & build process
SASS (scss) - Easy to learn CSS on steroids
Autoprefixing - Automatically adds vendors prefixes to your CSS
JS Compiler (Babel) - Write JS using the latest features and let webpack worry about making it work accross all browsers
Minifying - Automatically minifies your production assets (JS / CSS) during build process
Cache busting - Each time you build assets, we generate a new URL for each asset file. This means you'll never see the old cached version while developing or after pushing your code to production.
Synchronised browser testing
Helps you write better code (automatic code linting)
- phpcs
- eslint
- stylelint
Easy SASS media queries
Eightshift Libs - Library aimed at bringing the modern development tools to your project.
Eightshift Frontend Libs - A collection of useful frontend utility modules and all the tools you need to start building a modern Gutenberg dynamic blocks.

Let's create a new project!

Navigate to your WordPress theme folder and run the following command:

npx create-wp-project

Script will prompt you for theme name and local development url (used for BrowserSync) and install a new theme:

After the script is finished, you can activate the theme through WP Admin Dashboard.

To start developing run this command from projects root folder:

npm start

For more instalation details follow this link.

If you have any questions or problems, please open an issue on github and we will do our best to give you a timely answer.

Eightshift WordPress Boilerplate is maintained and sponsored by Eightshift and Infinum.