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.

``sh


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...

`sh
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.


`

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

_It'll take a couple of minutes to install._

`sh
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.

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

!wpgulp config

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

`sh
npm start

To stop press CTRL (⌃) + C


`

!wpgulp start

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

`sh


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?

1. 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.
2. 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.

> `html
> '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

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!Update

License & Attribution

MIT © Ahmad Awais.

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.

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