deliciousmedia / dm-base-theme

This is the base WordPress theme we use at Delicious Media for most of our projects. It is based on _s by Automattic. It's designed to be used in conjunction with our provisioning script, but you can rename things manually by following the instructions on the undescores repository.

DM Base Theme

This is the base WordPress theme we use at Delicious Media for most of our projects. It is based on _s by Automattic. It's designed to be used in conjunction with our provisioning script, but you can rename things manually by following the instructions on the undescores repository.

Development Notes

This theme uses Gulp (v4) to automate compilation of SASS into CSS, minification of JS/CSS and optimisation of images. It requires NPM & Gulp CLI.

By default image minification uses imagemin-mozjpeg which is lossy set to 90% this should be imperceptible, but if this is unacceptable for a project switch to jpegtran which is lossless. This will result in significantly larger files.

• Source SASS files are in /content/themes/THEMENAME/src/sass/ and are compiled into /content/THEMENAME/assets/css/
• Source JavaScript are in /content/themes/THEMENAME/src/js/ and are placed in /content/themes/THEMENAME/assets/js/
• Source images are in /content/themes/THEMENAME/src/img/ and are placed in /content/THEMENAME/assets/img/

The gulp tasks will create minified and unminified versions of CSS and JavaScript; by default the minified versions are only used in live, this is controlled by the WP_DEBUG constant which you should set to true in local-config.php (this is done automatically set on DEV and STAGE).

To get started, install the required node modules.

cd content/themes/THEMENAME
npm install

To build the theme (e.g. upon deployment):

gulp build

To build & watch (e.g. for development):

gulp

To build the theme with RTL support (e.g. upon deployment):

gulp build-rtl

To build & watch with RTL support (e.g. for development):

gulp start-rtl