Comment by Jakub on "What is your Wordpress theme development process and workflow like?"

I am using Bedrock Stack and Sage Starter Theme from roots.io

Bedrock

Bedrock is a complete wordpress boilerplate. It implements the 12 factor app methology

So, why it's cool?

Dependencies managed over composer, Wp, plugins etc.
Make use of .env variables so no more flickering in wp-config.php
Easy deployments with capistrano.

If you want to deploy your project simply type cap staging deploy or cap production deploy and you can even sync (pull /push) database and uploads.

Dependencies got managed with composer. If you want to install wp plugins you can simply composer require packagename which is pretty neat!

Sage

Sage is a starter sceleton theme. It also comes with a ready to go workflow, which includes:

Sass
ES6
Webpack & Browsersync
And I think they included laravels blade template engine recently
Theme Wrapper

However I have a fork of it, with some custom addtions. The stack is pretty solid, as it's also generating a manifest.json and hashed assets so you nomrally don't have problems with clearing chache etc.

The Theme Wrapper is also awesome, because you can easily split everything into partials and DRY up your code.

All in all it's a very solid stack which helps you to create a clean codebase and easy workflow. They have also a few awesome plugins like Soil to clean up wp_head()

This looks interesting and I believe there's a lot there I need to learn. I'm familiar with composer, a bit. However I am unfamiliar with .env variables, manifest.json. I'll need to look those up.

Well it's not complicated. You simply create an .env file, which holds your secrets. Like DB user, pw etc.

And the wp-conf then reads this file. So you don't need to hardcode any secrets anywhere in your code.

Sureley you need to ignore this .env file from your git.

Well the manifest.json simply holds the current assets with their hash. So the wordpress header knows which to load. Like style01424123149.css etc. because of the hash you don't have problems with caching.

I just came across Timber for Wordpress. It looks very interesting. I play around with Django sometimes, which separates logic and HTML, so this Timber looks like a great step. Have you heard of it, used it, or have an opinion?

https://www.upstatement.com/timber/

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