UC Santa Cruz | Science WordPress Core Functionality Plugin

WordPress plugin for UC Santa,Cruz Science.

This plugin contains the site's core functionality. Any custom post-types, taxonomies, or shrotcodes are defined in here rather than the theme, making it theme independent. If the current theme is changed at a future date, this plugin will ensure the any custom functionality remains.

This plugin contains the following library structure; however, it can be expanded greatly:

• general.php -- for any general functions you would write

• post-types.php -- for registering custom post types

• shortcodes.php -- for writing custom shortcodes

• taxonomies.php -- for custom taxonomies

Dependencies

• Node.js
• npm
• Gulp

Install and build

Clone this repository into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress development environment. Navigate to the directory you cloned this repo into with your terminal and type:

npm install

Wait several minutes for the installation to complete and you're in business!

Gulp tasks

There are two Gulp tasks defined in the gulpfile.js file:

There is no style.css file in this repo. The gulp styles task will build your style.css file based on the SASS files located in /assets/sass/. This task will also created minified styles, saved as styles.min.css.

gulp styles

The gulp watch task will continuously watch your /assets/sass/ directory and rebuild your styles every time you save a SASS file.

gulp watch

Credits

• Developed by Jason Chafin, Senior Web Developer, UC Santa Cruz Communications & Marketing