This is a premade template for creating a Divi Child Theme. This repo comes preinstalled with 3 different paths...
If you don't have any experience working with preprocessors, this is the best path for you.
The first step to getting start with building a child theme is cloning this repo. If you don't have Git installed, you can download the ZIP file and drop it into your wp-content/themes
folder.
- Let's start by navigating to your
wp-content/themes
folder instead your WordPress directory. - Once you're there, open
terminal
in the current folder. - Now with
terminal
, use the following commands to clone:git clone git@github.com:elegantthemes/divi-child-theme-init.git
Now that you have the repo cloned or installed, you can start development.
- If you haven't already, navigate to your
divi-child-theme-init folder
. - Open up
style.css
in your favorite editor and code away!
If you want to speed up your development, you can choose one of the following preprocessors installed.
Below are a list of applications/software that you will need preinstalled before continuing down this path.
The first step is getting NodeJS installed. If you already have it installed go ahead and skip to step #2.
- Head over to
https://nodejs.org/en/
and install the latest version of Node.js - Now that it's installed, run
node -v
to verify that you have the latest version installed. - Head over to step #2.
The next step is setting up GruntJS locally. If you already have it installed go ahead and skip to step #3.
- Now that you have Node installed, let's install GruntJS by running the following command:
npm install -g grunt-cli
. - Head over to step #3.
After installing Node and Grunt, you can now install Git. If you already have it installed go ahead and skip to step #4.
- Go to
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
and follow the to installing git for the correct machine. - Head over to step #4.
- With git now installed, navigate to
wp-content/themes
folder. - Clone the repo using the following command:
git clone git@github.com:elegantthemes/divi-child-theme-init.git
. - Now with the repo cloned, you can navigate to it by typing in
cd
and dragging the divi child theme folder into your terminal. - Head over to step #5.
- From current directory, install node packages with the following command:
npm install
. - Head over to step #6.
- From the current directory, run the following command:
grunt
. - Once grunt has been initiated, you can start your development.
Copyright 2015 ElegantThemes. Code released under the GNU license.