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Supporting

Sage is an open source project and completely free to use.

However, the amount of effort needed to maintain and develop new features and products within the Roots ecosystem is not sustainable without proper financial backing. If you have the capability, please consider donating using the links below:

About Sage

Sage is a productivity-driven WordPress starter theme with a modern development workflow.

The master branch currently tracks Sage 10 which is in active development. Looking for Sage 9? See releases.

Features

• Harness the power of Laravel and its available packages thanks to Acorn.
• Clean, efficient theme templating utilizing Laravel Blade.
• Easy Browsersync support alongside asset compilation, concatenating, and minification powered by Laravel Mix.
• Out of the box support for Bootstrap 5 and jQuery.
• A clean starting point for theme styles using Sass.

See a working example at roots-example-project.com.

Requirements

Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:

• WordPress >= 5.4
• PHP >= 7.2.5 (with php-mbstring enabled)
• Composer
• Node.js >= 12.0.0
• Yarn

Theme installation

Install Sage using Composer from your WordPress themes directory (replace your-theme-name below with the name of your theme):

# @ app/themes/ or wp-content/themes/
$ composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name

To install the latest development version of Sage, add dev-master to the end of the command:

$ composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name dev-master

Theme structure

themes/your-theme-name/   # → Root of your Sage based theme
├── app/                  # → Theme PHP
│   ├── View/             # → View models
│   ├── Providers/        # → Service providers
│   ├── admin.php         # → Theme customizer setup
│   ├── filters.php       # → Theme filters
│   ├── helpers.php       # → Helper functions
│   └── setup.php         # → Theme setup
├── config/               # → Config files
│   ├── app.php           # → Application configuration
│   ├── assets.php        # → Asset configuration
│   ├── filesystems.php   # → Filesystems configuration
│   ├── logging.php       # → Logging configuration
│   └── view.php          # → View configuration
├── composer.json         # → Autoloading for `app/` files
├── composer.lock         # → Composer lock file (never edit)
├── dist/                 # → Built theme assets (never edit)
├── functions.php         # → Theme bootloader
├── index.php             # → Theme template wrapper
├── node_modules/         # → Node.js packages (never edit)
├── package.json          # → Node.js dependencies and scripts
├── resources/            # → Theme assets and templates
│   ├── assets/           # → Front-end assets
│   │   ├── fonts/        # → Theme fonts
│   │   ├── images/       # → Theme images
│   │   ├── scripts/      # → Theme javascript
│   │   └── styles/       # → Theme stylesheets
│   └── views/            # → Theme templates
│       ├── components/   # → Component templates
│       ├── form/         # → Form templates
│       ├── layouts/      # → Base templates
│       └── partials/     # → Partial templates
├── screenshot.png        # → Theme screenshot for WP admin
├── storage/              # → Storage location for cache (never edit)
├── style.css             # → Theme meta information
├── vendor/               # → Composer packages (never edit)
└── webpack.mix.js        # → Laravel Mix configuration

Theme setup

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

Theme development

• Run yarn from the theme directory to install dependencies
• Update webpack.mix.js with your local dev URL

Build commands

• yarn start — Compile assets when file changes are made, start Browsersync session
• yarn build — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory
• yarn build:production — Compile assets for production

Documentation

• Sage documentation

Contributing

Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started.

Sage sponsors

Help support our open-source development efforts by becoming a sponsor.

Community

Keep track of development and community news.

• Participate on the Roots Discourse
• Follow @rootswp on Twitter
• Read and subscribe to the Roots Blog
• Subscribe to the Roots Newsletter
• Listen to the Roots Radio podcast