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kermage/themeplate
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A toolkit to handle everything related in developing a full-featured WordPress theme.

v3.19.3(2y ago)423[1 issues](https://github.com/kermage/ThemePlate/issues)GPL-3.0-onlyPHPPHP ^5.6|^7.0|^8.0CI failing

Since Feb 15Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

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[](#themeplate-----)

> *"A toolkit to handle everything related in developing a full-featured WordPress site"*

- Add meta boxes to posts, terms, users, and menu items
- Register custom post types and custom taxonomies
- Create options pages and add custom admin columns
- Frontend markup cleaner with a clean navwalker

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Fully compatible with the new block editor: Gutenberg
- Work similarly to native WordPress function/methods
- Look seamlessly beautiful to WordPress pages/panels
- Easy, simple, and straightforward as much as possible

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

#### 1. Install the toolkit

[](#1-install-the-toolkit)

- As a theme required plugin: Refer [here](http://tgmpluginactivation.com/installation/)
- As a must-use plugin: Refer [here](https://wordpress.org/support/article/must-use-plugins/)

#### 2. Add to theme's `functions.php` or plugin's `main php file`

[](#2-add-to-themes-functionsphp-or-plugins-main-php-file)

```
if ( class_exists( 'ThemePlate' ) ) :
	ThemePlate( array(
		'title' => 'Project Name',
		'key'   => 'project_prefix'
	) );
	require_once 'post-types.php';
	require_once 'settings.php';
	require_once 'meta-boxes.php';
endif;
```

- Initialize with an array consisting of a ***title*** and a ***key*** to be used as:
    - page and menu title in the pre-created options page
    - prefix to the registered option names and in every meta key
- Require files containing the definition of ***`ThemePlate-d`*** items

#### 3. Define items to be *`ThemePlate-d`*

[](#3-define-items-to-be-themeplate-d)

- `ThemePlate()->post_type( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->taxonomy( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->settings( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->post_meta( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->term_meta( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->user_meta( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->menu_meta( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->page( $args );`
- `ThemePlate()->column( $args );`

#### See the [Wiki](https://github.com/kermage/ThemePlate/wiki) section

[](#see-the-wiki-section)

---

### Yeoman Generator

[](#yeoman-generator)

Check [generator-themeplate](https://www.npmjs.com/package/generator-themeplate) to kickstart a **ThemePlate** powered WP site.

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance15

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~83 days

Recently: every ~100 days

Total

19

Last Release

774d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v3.12.0PHP >=5.6.0

v3.18.1PHP ^5.6|^7.0|^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/91095d431958c79a7384d515efec2686ca3cd1e1e1a5a42b680309b8e855355a?d=identicon)[kermage](/maintainers/kermage)

---

Top Contributors

[![kermage](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8350223?v=4)](https://github.com/kermage "kermage (1311 commits)")

---

Tags

toolkitwordpresswordpress-pluginpluginwordpress

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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![Health badge](/badges/kermage-themeplate/health.svg)

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