Requires global gulp and gulp-cli to be installed
Also requires node/npm, MySQL and PHP.
If you don't have homebrew on OSX, visit brew.sh
OSX: brew install node.
OSX: brew install php php-code-sniffer
OSX: brew install mysql
To run the demo, additionally check out wordpress-theme-builder-src then copy into the root of this folder as "src" (this exists as a submodule now).
For pre NPM 7 do npm install, post NPM 7 do npm install --legacy-peer-deps
then npm run get-wordpress to download and uncompress the latest wordpress into .run
Modify src/wp-config.php to contain the correct database credentials. By default this expects a local MySQL/MariaDB database called wordpress which can be accessed by wordpress_user@localhost with no password. This file is not part of the final zip of your theme and is only used for running the theme locally.
Optionally, modify src/options.js to change the name of your theme.
Then npm run develop to run the livereload local server ( http://localhost:9000 )
Fill out the usual WordPress configuration information, log in and change your theme to the Wordpress Theme Builder theme (or whatever you called yours :))
npm run deploy will build and gzip/brotli compress the assets then zip them into an installable zip in dist that you can install using your site's themes uploader.
Sometimes the local install of Wordpress won’t be able to update/install local plugins/themes/wordpress updates. This happened to me on OSX and seems to be do with how ipv6 works with my ISP. If this also affects you, I’ve included an open source plugin that forces WP to use ipv4, curl-no-ipv6.php.zip in this repo. Just install it and then it should all work.
