Installation

Tonik Starter Theme uses Composer and NPM to manage its dependencies. Make sure you have both installed on your machine before using this starter.

Dependencies

A starter has a few dependencies. They are extracted to separate packages for easy installation and managing via Composer and NPM package managers.

• tonik/gin (required) - Theme foundation which provides all custom functionalities
• tonik/cli (optional) - Simple CLI for initiating theme

Creating New Theme

WordPress themes lives in the wp-content/themes folder. This is where we have to fetch our fresh starter files.

# Go to the `themes` directory of your WordPress installation.
$ cd wp-content/themes

Create project via composer create-project composer command.

$ composer create-project tonik/theme <theme-name>

You can also directly download or clone the repository to the wp-content/themes directory.

# Clone repository to the <theme-name> folder.
$ git clone -b master git@github.com:tonik/theme.git <theme-name>

Resolving Theme Dependencies

You will find more detailed instructions about managing and building a theme in Development documentation.

In order to property bootstrap a theme, you have to fetch some required dependencies and compile its assets. Before that, make sure that you are in the root folder of the theme (where package.json and composer.json files are located).

# @ wp-content/themes
$ cd <theme-name>

1. Install back-end dependencies and generate an autoloading file.

# Install composer dependencies.
$ composer install

2. Install front-end dependencies and builder.

# Install node dependencies.
$ npm install

3. Build a Theme

Let's prebuild the theme to avoid error about missing enqueued assets.

# Build a theme for development.
$ npm run dev

Activate Theme

Now, you are ready to turn on your newly created theme. Go to the WordPress admin panel and activate the theme on Appearance > Themes page. Familiar with WP-CLI? Use theme activate command.

# Activate newly created theme.
$ wp theme activate <theme-name>