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`WordPress Gulp Workflow`

WPGulp (WordPress Gulp) 🎯 An advanced & extensively documented Gulp WordPress workflow. Kick-start a build-workflow for your WordPress plugins and themes with Gulp.
A FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) project. Maintained by @AhmadAwais.

📦 WPGulp Can Do `THAT™`

WPGulp is an advanced & extensively documented Gulp.js + WordPress workflow. It can help you kick-start a build-workflow for your WordPress plugins and themes with Gulp.js, save you a lot of grunt work time, follow the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, and #0CJS Zero-config JavaScript startup but still configurable via wpgulp.config.js file. It is:

🥞 Versioned ✓
🤠 Updatable ✓
🗃 Set of sane-defaults ✓

💻 DEV ENVIRONMENT

Live reload browser with BrowserSync

Hotloading styles with CSS Injection

🎨 STYLES

Sass to CSS conversion

Merging media queries

Error handling

Auto-prefixing

Minification

Sourcemaps

🌋 JavaScript

Concatenation

Minification/uglification

Separate vendor and custom JS files handling

🌁 IMAGES

Minification/optimization of images

File types: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .svg

💯 TRANSLATION

Generates .pot translation file for i18n and l10n

👀 WATCHING

For changes in files to recompile

File types: .css, .html, .php, .js

Start

Getting Started

⚡️ Quick Overview

Run step #1, #2, and #3 quickly in one go — Run inside local WP install's theme/plugin folder E.g. /wp.local/wp-content/plugins/your-plugin or /wp.local/wp-content/themes/your-theme directory.

# 1— Install WPGulp in your WordPress theme/plugin.
npx wpgulp
# 2— Now configure variables inside the `wpgulp.config.js` file.
# 3— Start your npm build workflow.
npm start

(npx is a package runner tool that comes with npm 5.2+ and higher).

🎛 If you want to study the detailed installation of step #1 , #2, and #3 — then take a look at the steps below.

STEP #0 — Don't have Node.js + npm installed? Read this. (CLICK TO EXPAND!)

In case you are an absolute beginner to the world of Node.js, JavaScript, and npm packages — all you need to do is go to the Node's site download + install Node on your system. This will install both Node.js and npm, i.e., node package manager — the command line interface of Node.js.

You can verify the install by opening your terminal app and typing...

node -v
# Results into v9.11.2 — make sure you have Node >= 8 installed.

npm -v
# Results into 6.2.0 — make sure you have npm >= 5.3 installed.

→ `STEP #1` — Download the Required Files

In the terminal go to the root folder of your WordPress plugin/theme
Run the following command to download all the files in the WPGulp/src folder

It'll take a couple of minutes to install.

npx wpgulp

(npx is a package runner tool that comes with npm 5.2+ and higher).

wpgulp install gif

⚠️ I'm assuming that there are no previously present similar files in the root of your folder. Otherwise, you need to merge these very carefully. E.g. You can include the scripts, devDependencies in your current package.json file and so on for other files. If you run the above command all similar files will be overwritten.

→ `STEP #2` — Editing the Project Variables

Configure the project paths and other variables inside the wpgulp.config.js file. This is a compulsory step.

wpgulp config

→ `STEP #3` — Start your project

Once the installation is done, you can open your project (WordPress plugin/theme) folder and run the start script.

npm start

# To stop press CTRL (⌃) + C

wpgulp start

→ `OPTIONAL STEP #4` — More Scripts/Tasks

To optimize images and generate WP POT translation file, or generate a RTL stylesheet you can run the following commands

# To optimize images.
npm run images

# To generate WP POT translation file.
npm run translate

# To generate RTL stylesheets and Sourcemap.
npm run styles-rtl

# To generate theme/plugin zip file without extranious files.
npm run zip

Update

How to Update?

Download all the latest files in the WPGulp/src folder inside the root folder of your WordPress plugin/theme by running npx install-wpgulp it will overwrite all the wpgulp files.
Open terminal and Install WPGulp's node dependencies by running the npm install commands in the root folder of your WordPress plugin/theme.

Log

Changelog

Read what's 📦 new, 👌 improved, 🐛 fixed, and if 📖 docs got updated.

👉 Go read the entire changelog at this link — WPGulp Changelog →

Nothing's ever complete, so bear with us while we keep iterating towards a better future.

'Coz every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make ...

... listen to → A million dreams!

Hello

Sponsor

Me (Ahmad Awais) and my incredible wife (Maedah Batool) are two engineers who fell in love with open source and then with each other. You can read more about me here. If you or your company use any of my projects or like what I’m doing then consider backing me. I'm in this for the long run. An open-source developer advocate.

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Update

License & Attribution

This project is inspired by the work of many awesome developers especially those who contribute to this project, Gulp.js, Babel, and many other dependencies as listed in the package.json file. FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) for the win.