Sage

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

Features

• Sass for stylesheets
• Modern JavaScript
• Laravel Mix for compiling assets and concatenating and minifying files
• Browsersync for synchronized browser testing
• Blade as a templating engine
• CSS framework (optional): Bootstrap 4, Bulma, Foundation, Tachyons, Tailwind

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

Requirements

Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:

• WordPress >= 5.2
• PHP >= 7.1.3 (with php-mbstring enabled)
• Composer
• Node.js >= 8.0.0
• 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

To install the latest development version of Sage, add dev-master to the end of the command:

$ 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, and configure Browsersync.

Theme structure

themes/your-theme-name/   # → Root of your Sage based theme
├── composer.json         # → Autoloading for `app/` files
├── composer.lock         # → Composer lock file (never edit)
├── dist/                 # → Built theme assets (never edit)
├── functions.php         # → Composer autoloader, Acorn bootloader
├── index.php             # → Never manually edit
├── node_modules/         # → Node.js packages (never edit)
├── package.json          # → Node.js dependencies and scripts
├── screenshot.png        # → Theme screenshot for WP admin
├── style.css             # → Theme meta information
├── app/                  # → Theme PHP
│   ├── Composers/        # → View composers
│   ├── Providers/        # → Service providers
│   ├── admin.php         # → Theme customizer setup
│   ├── filters.php       # → Theme filters
│   ├── helpers.php       # → Helper functions
│   └── setup.php         # → Theme setup
├── config/               # → Config files
│   ├── app.php           # → Application configuration
│   ├── assets.php        # → Asset configuration
│   ├── filesystems.php   # → Filesystems configuration
│   ├── logging.php       # → Logging configuration
│   └── view.php          # → View configuration
├── dist/                 # → Built theme assets (never edit)
├── resources/            # → Theme assets and templates
│   ├── assets/           # → Front-end assets
│   │   ├── fonts/        # → Theme fonts
│   │   ├── images/       # → Theme images
│   │   ├── scripts/      # → Theme JS
│   │   └── styles/       # → Theme stylesheets
│   └── views/            # → Theme templates
│       ├── layouts/      # → Base templates
│       └── partials/     # → Partial templates
├── storage/              # → Storage location for cache (never edit)
└── 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 webpack.mix.js with your local dev URL

Build commands

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

Documentation

• Sage documentation

Contributing

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

Sage sponsors

Help support our open-source development efforts by becoming a patron.

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