Wordpress

The perfect WordPress-Timber starter theme.

Requirements

• Wordpress
• Composer
• npm | yarn

Installation

Go to your themes folder and

$ git clone https://github.com/ludescher/timber-starter-theme.git <theme-name>
$ cd <theme-name>
$ composer install
$ npm install

Now setup webpack and you're ready to go.

Webpack-Encore

# compile assets once
$ yarn encore dev

# or, recompile assets automatically when files change
$ yarn encore dev --watch

# on deploy, create a production build
$ yarn encore production

Change "WORDPRESS" to your sitename.

// webpack.config.js
if (!Encore.isProduction()) {
    const BrowserSyncPlugin = require('browser-sync-webpack-plugin')
    config.plugins.push(
        new BrowserSyncPlugin({
            // browse to http://localhost:3000/ during development,
            // ./public directory is being served
            host: '127.0.0.1',
            proxy: 'http://localhost/WORDPRESS/',
            port: 3000,
            //server: { baseDir: ['public'] }
        })
    );
}

Finally, activate the Timber plugin!

Timber-Cache

Caching is now disabled by default

Note: you should enable caching in Production!

// functions.php

/**
 * Cache the Twig File (but not the data)
 */
Timber::$cache = false;

Theme

You can manage all needed Theme settings in

config/site.php

Registering a menu etc.

Post Types

If you need any custom post types, you can easily create a file in the post_types directory.

src/PostType/car.php

Taxonomies

Same goes for taxonomies.

src/Taxonomy/car_brand.php

Controller (heavily inspired by symfony)

Im using Annotation for handling routing names and paths. Caching is supported and it depends on WP_DEBUG, if WP_DEBUG is enabled, caching is disabled and vice versa (for the development process, it is recommended to enable WP_DEBUG).

The Controller-Interface saves its Routes in a global variable, you can render those routes with the just added Twig-Functions url("routename") and path("routename").

// src/Controller/DefaultController.php
<?php

namespace src\Controller;

use lib\Controller;
use lib\Annotation\Route;

class DefaultController extends Controller {
    /**
     * @Route("/test/{id}/list/", name="test_list_item", methods={"GET"})
     */
    public function testListItemAction(\WP_REST_Request $request) {
        $id = $request->get_params("id");

        return $this->render("post.twig", ["id" => $id]);
    }
}

With the new Controller you have access to

/**
 * redirect the user to another page
 * 
 * @param String $routename
 * @param Array $args
 */
$this->redirectToRoute("routename");

/**
 * Compile a Twig file.
 *
 * Passes data to a Twig file and returns the output.
 * 
 * @param String $twig_file_name
 * @param Array $options
 * @return String
 */
$this->render("filename");

/**
 * redirect the user to another page
 * 
 * @param String $url
 * @param Bool $permanent
 */
$this->redirect("url");

/**
 * get current user
 * get user by id
 * 
 * @param Int $id
 * @return User
 */
$this->getUser();

/**
 * generate the url to another page
 * 
 * @param String $routename
 * @param Array $args
 * @return String
 */
$this->generateUrl("routename");

and there is more to come!