beef / platterpus

A base Wordpress theme based on Platter.

#Platterpus

Platterpus is a base WordPress theme based on Platter and is built using Forge.

Forge is a free command-line toolkit for bootstrapping and developing WordPress themes in a tidy environment using front-end languages like Sass, LESS, and CoffeeScript.

It is the starting point to WordPress projects at Beef and is a combination of hard work, latest technologies and good practices.

##Why There are plenty of other WordPress starter themes out there, many are even listed below. There are of course always bits and pieces that don't suit your development flow, or the way you like your CSS to be structured etc. Also, we have so specific requirements as an agency that mean we need something we can use on many sites, and so something we wrote ourselves.

##How The first thing to do is fork/clone/download the repo to your hearts content. Once there, you'll need the Forge gem installed. We are using RVM and have a gemset and a single WordPress install setup for easy development on multiple themes.

Once you have this setup, in terminal you want to link this up to your WordPress install:

forge link /wordpress/wp-content/themes/my-theme

When you have it linked up correctly, navigate into your theme and tell Forge to watch for changes:

forge watch

##To Do Currently Forge lacks a templating ability. For example, with Middleman you can use "--template=" to load a custom template. So if/when that feature comes to into furition then we'll make platterpus work like that.

Setting up the features.php so that is much easier to customise. Making everything a function call that can be commented out etc.

Going though and tidying up the php templates, though the views we've used from HTML5 BLank have done a pretty good job of this.

Putting the languages/translations stuff back in.

##Who Platterpus was written / compiled by the Front End Dev nerds at Beef.

###Liam Richardson

• @discoliam
• discoliam.com

###Craig Coles

• @craigrcoles
• craigcoles.co.uk

Credit where credit is due

We more than willingly stole from these projects:

• HTML5 BLank by Todd Motto
• Roots Theme
• Starkers by Viewport Industries

And, we picked up a few tips and tricks from:

• Smashing Magazine
• Net Tuts