Installation¶

Wordless GEM (favourite)¶

The quickest CLI tool to setup a new WordPress locally. Wordless ready.

No prerequisites. Just joy.

Navigate to https://github.com/welaika/wordless_gem to discover the tool and set up all you need for local development. In less than 2 minutes ;)

(Not so) Manual¶

At the end of the installation process you will have

a plugin - almost invisible: no backend page, just wp-cli commands
a theme - where we will do all of the work

Prerequisites¶

Install WP-CLI http://wp-cli.org/#installing
Install global packages from NPM: npm install -g foreman yarn [1] [2] (you already have node on your development machine, haven’t you?)
WordPress installed and configured as per official documentation
Install MailHog. On MacOS this is as simple as brew install mailhog. Wordless will do the rest.

Note

We don’t know if you have a local apache {M,L,W}AMPP instance or whatever in order to perform the official installation process. Keep in mind that Wordless’s flow does not need any external web server, since it will use the wp server command to serve your wordpress.

Steps¶

Note

We consider that you have WordPress already up and running and you are in the project’s root directory in your terminal.

Install and activate the wordpress plugin
wp plugin install --activate wordless

Scaffold a new theme

wp wordless theme create mybrandnewtheme

Enter theme directory
cd wp-content/themes/mybrandnewtheme
Bundle NPM packages
yarn install
Start the server - and the magic
yarn run server

Webpack, php server and your browser will automatically come up and serve your needs :)