Info

This is a fork of the amazing Sage Starter Theme that comes preset with Foundation 6 and our homegrown layout builder SSMPB. It creates an abstraction layer on top of custom field libraries (ACF & Carbon Fields) in an attempt to use either interchangeably depending on a project's requirements. The jury is out as to whether or not we will keep this, but for now, it's a goal.

Requirements

Prerequisite	How to check	How to install
PHP >= 5.4.x	php -v	php.net
Node.js >= 4.5	node -v	nodejs.org
gulp >= 3.8.10	gulp -v	npm install -g gulp
Bower >= 1.3.12	bower -v	npm install -g bower

For more installation notes, refer to the Install gulp and Bower section in this document.

Features

• gulp build script that compiles both Sass and Less, checks for JavaScript errors, optimizes images, and concatenates and minifies files
• BrowserSync for keeping multiple browsers and devices synchronized while testing, along with injecting updated CSS and JS into your browser while you're developing
• Bower for front-end package management
• asset-builder for the JSON file based asset pipeline
• Bootstrap
• Theme wrapper
• ARIA roles and microformats
• Posts use the hNews microformat
• Multilingual ready and over 30 available community translations

Install the Soil plugin to enable additional features:

• Cleaner output of wp_head and enqueued assets
• Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus
• Root relative URLs
• Nice search (/search/query/)
• Google CDN jQuery snippet from HTML5 Boilerplate
• Google Analytics snippet from HTML5 Boilerplate

Install the SSM Core plugin to enable additional, opinionated features.

Theme setup

Edit lib/setup.php to enable or disable theme features, setup navigation menus, post thumbnail sizes, post formats, and sidebars.

Theme development

Sage uses gulp as its build system and Bower to manage front-end packages.

Install gulp and Bower

Building the theme requires node.js. We recommend you update to the latest version of npm: npm install -g npm@latest.

From the command line:

1. Install gulp and Bower globally with npm install -g gulp bower
2. Navigate to the theme directory, then run npm install
3. Run bower install

You now have all the necessary dependencies to run the build process.

Available gulp commands

• gulp — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory
• gulp watch — Compile assets when file changes are made
• gulp --production — Compile assets for production (no source maps).

Using BrowserSync

To use BrowserSync during gulp watch you need to update devUrl at the bottom of assets/manifest.json to reflect your local development hostname.

For example, if your local development URL is http://project-name.dev you would update the file to read:

...
  "config": {
    "devUrl": "http://project-name.dev"
  }
...

If your local development URL looks like http://localhost:8888/project-name/ you would update the file to read:

...
  "config": {
    "devUrl": "http://localhost:8888/project-name/"
  }
...

Using SSMPB

• Choose Field Library (Advanced Custom Fields or Carbon Fields)
• ACF requires ACF Pro Purchase Here
• Carbon requires Carbon Fields (run composer install)
• Update constant in lib/ssmpb/setup.php