A one-stop solution for crafting WordPress themes with finesse. Seamlessly bundled with a powerful tools that simplifies your development workflow.
Get Started by generating your theme with your favorite CSS framework with our online generator (wip***)
or
You can use our cli tool by running the command below with your favorite CSS framework:
npx wp-theme new <theme-name> --bootstrap
npx wp-theme new <theme-name> --material
- Move this folder to
wp-content/themes
in your local development environment - Navigate into your theme's folder and run
npm install && npm run dev
- Activate the theme in your WordPress administrative panel
Track changes in your style
and script
folder and build the output in real-time.
- Run
npm run watch
Track changes across your style
, script
and theme
folder, auto-update your theme in real-time and refreshes your browser.
- Open the
package.json
and replace the url stringdev.local
in thewatch:changes
script with the url of your currently running server - Run
npm run serve
or if you would like to enable a tunnel exposing your localhost to a publicly available url, runnpm run serve:tunnel
.
- Run
npm run build
- Take the resulting
zip
file and upload to your website, through the administrative panel's appearance upload theme page.
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Scaffold Themes - Quickly generate new WordPress theme with essential files and configurations to jumpstart theme development with your selected css framework baked in ready to use.
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Hot Reload - Experience Automatically updates your code in real-time as you make changes to your code, ensuring that your changes are instantly reflected in the browser without requiring manual refreshes.
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Live Tunnel - Exposes your local development environment (i.e. localhost) publicly accessible URL online, lets you showcase and test your WordPress theme in a live environment, allowing collaborators and your clients to preview your work.
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Script Bundling - Ready to bundle JavaScript files, making it easier to manage dependencies and optimize the performance of your theme.
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Style Compilation/Bundling - A Compiler ready to transform your Sass/SCSS or plain CSS files into compressed CSS, allowing you to write styles more efficiently and modularly.
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Style Prefixing - Get automatic addition of vendor prefixes to CSS code, to ensuring that your styles works correctly and its compatible across different web browsers.
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Theme Bundling (with Automatic Versioning) - Generate your final production-ready theme bundle zip with automatic version incrementing in the
funtions.php
file.
Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting with WordPress theme development, the Create WP Theme Toolkit empowers you to create exceptional themes with ease.