Welcome to Vanilla Wordpress Template’s documentation!

Contents:

• Overview
  • Motivation
  • Pre-Requisites
  • Installation
    • Step 1: Clone the repository from Github
    • Step 2: Composer Install
    • Step 3: Create .env file in project root
    • Step 4: Create local MySQL database
    • Step 5: Serve site in local dev environment and view site

• The Basics
  • WordPress Core
  • Directory Structure
  • What’s Included
  • Theme Config File
  • Asset Pipeline

• Theme Components
  • Templates
  • Posts
  • Pages
  • Custom Post Types
  • Taxonomies
  • Menus
  • Options panels
  • Custom Fields
  • Media Library
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Sidebars
  • Shortcodes
  • Endpoints
  • The Loop
  • WP_Query

• Helper Functions
  • Helper::image
  • asset()

• How To Build a WP Theme
  • Step 1: Views, Partials and Layouts
  • Step 2: Assets
  • Step 3: Data Model
  • Step 4: View Mapping
  • Step 5: Dummy Content and Menus
  • Step 6: Options Panels
  • Step 7: Custom Field Definitions, Sidebars and Shortcodes
  • Step 8: Make the views dynamic
  • Step 9: Endpoints and Advanced Functionality
  • Step 10: Testing, and production ready

• Appendix A: Windows Local Dev Environment Guide
  • Step 1: Download all of the packages here:
  • Step 2: Restart Machine
  • Step 3: Start Wamp Server
  • Step 4: Install Apache Service
  • Step 5: Install Apache Modules
  • Step 6: Enabled PHP Extensions
  • Step 7: Edit Apache Config File
  • Step 8: Restart WAMP Services
  • Step 9: Put WAMP Online
  • Step 10: Is it working?
  • Step 12: Edit your host file
  • Step 13: Add the vhost configuration
  • Step 14: Does it work?