Anyone using Grunt for WordPress theme development?

Envato Authors CodeCanyon
#1

Just wondering who else is using Grunt for WordPress Theme Development?

I’ve been avoiding grunt for WordPress themes up until today, it’s quite cool. When I run grunt build it does the following:

  • Copy my theme files from /theme-name/ into /build/
  • Zips up /theme-name-child/ into /theme-name-child.zip
  • Minify all javascript in /build/
  • Compresses all images in /build/
  • Adds new version numbers to /build/style.css (Theme Version) and /build/functions.php (enqueue script/style version numbers)
  • Adds correct textdomain to all function calls within /build/*.php files
  • Generates /build/languages/theme-name.pot
  • Zips up each of my custom theme plugins from /plugin-dev/theme-plugin-name/ into /build/plugins/theme-plugin-name.zip (so they can be activated with TGM upon theme installation)
  • Finally zips up /build/ folder into /theme-name.1.4.2.zip

Things I’m trying to figure out now are:

  • How to automatically add my /plugin-dev/* theme plugins to the TGM activation options array within the theme. So if I make a new theme plugin in /plugin-dev/ it will be automatically added to the TGM config array.
  • Best way to deploy my theme-name-1.4.2.zip file to a fresh WordPress installation for a quick test.

Anyone else here have a gruntfile they would like to share?

Cheers,
Dave

#2

Hi Dave!

I’m using it as well - my grunt file doesn’t do more than what your currently does though.

Can you share your grunt file? Would like to see how you’re doing it :slightly_smiling:

Kind Regards!

#3

https://github.com/dtbaker/wordpress-grunt/ :slight_smile: