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solidbunch/starter-kit-theme
============================

WordPress starter theme with a modern development stack for launching projects faster and easily

2.0.1(8mo ago)3127[10 issues](https://github.com/solidbunch/starter-kit-theme/issues)1MITPHPPHP &gt;=8.1

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Starter Kit theme
=================

[](#starter-kit-theme)

 [ ![GitHub](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/99b5b41166b1ba019a51eff1901e4b928b7a9f74b885748abe52978dac324330/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f6c6963656e73652f736f6c696462756e63682f737461727465722d6b69742d7468656d65) ](LICENSE.md) [ ![GitHub release (latest by date)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8cdb9b8c517fa20c8ec4ea59778a187ccfb3a783ee48fb7fdc33d38a2829b120/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f762f72656c656173652f736f6c696462756e63682f737461727465722d6b69742d7468656d653f636f6c6f723d626c756576696f6c6574) ](https://github.com/solidbunch/starter-kit-theme/releases)

**WordPress starter theme with a modern development stack for launching projects faster and easily.**

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- [PHP](https://secure.php.net/manual/en/install.php) 8.1
- [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/) 6.1
- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) 2.6
- [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/) 18

How to use
----------

[](#how-to-use)

### Installation

[](#installation)

1. Create a new theme directory in wp-content/themes:

```
mkdir you-theme-dir && cd you-theme-dir
```

2. Clone Starter Kit Theme:

```
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:solidbunch/starter-kit-theme.git . && rm -rf .git
```

3. Setup php dependencies:

```
composer install
```

4. Setup node dependencies:

```
npm install
```

### Build commands

[](#build-commands)

- Build minified assets for production:

```
npm run prod
```

- Build assets with source maps for development:

```
npm run dev
```

- Start watcher with browser sync for development:

```
npm run watch
```

Structure
---------

[](#structure)

```
── config/                      # Base theme configuration
── src/                         # Main theme functionality files
   ├── Base/                    # Base theme functions
   │   └──Hooks.php             # Registering hooks
   │
   ├── Error/                   # Theme additional error handlers, may be enable in config
   ├── Exception/               # Theme additional exceptions
   │
   ├── Handlers/                # Theme hook handlers, main functionality
   │   ├──Blocks/               # Blocks functionality
   │   ├──CLI/                  # WP CLI comands
   │   ├──Meta/                 # Registering meta fields for post types, taxonomis, users etc. Runs by Base/Hooks
   │   ├──PostTypes/            # Registering custom post types with Taxonomies. Runs by Base/Hooks
   │   ├──Settings/             # Theme settings creation.
   │   │  └──ThemeSettings.php  # Main theme settings. Look in wp-admin Theme Settings
   │   ├──Optimization /        # Removes unnecessary things, performance optimization
   │   ├──Security /            # Provides some security options. Disable xmlrpc, etc
   │   ├──Back.php              # wp-admin functions
   │   ├──Front.php             # Basic Front handlers
   │   └──SetupTheme.php        # Setup theme handlers
   │
   ├── Helper/                  # Helpers classes
   │   ├──Assets.php            # Helper to work with assets processed by webpack
   │   ├──Config.php            # Helper functions for theme configuration
   │   ├──Logger.php            # Logging helper
   │   └──Utils.php             # Other useful functions
   │
   ├── Repository/              # Repositories, help to receive data from DB
   │                            # Classes by each post type
   │
   ├── AbstractSingleton.php    # Abstract Class for creating Singleton Classes
   ├── App.php                  # Application Singleton. Entrypoint
   └── dev.php                  # Some developers functions for debug, logging, etc

── assets/                      # Theme assets
   ├── build/                   # The compiled assets
   ├── fonts/
   ├── images/
   └── src /                    # Assets source files
       ├── js/
       └── styles/

── parts/                       # Custom template parts for the theme. Include things like headers, footers, and sidebars.
── patterns/                    # Reusable patterns.
── templates/                   # Templates, represent the overall document structure of the front-end.
                                  Templates, parts, patterns are made up of block markup.
                                  WordPress will automatically register files included in this folder.

── functions.php
── package.json
── composer.json
── screenshot.png
── style.css
── webpack.mix.js
── .editorconfig
── .gitignore

```

Blocks
------

[](#blocks)

### Overview

[](#overview)

Gutenberg Blocks in the `blocks/` folder are loaded with the autoloader. That is, you can simply create a folder of a new block with the necessary files and this blocks will be automatically available.

Use `StarterBlock` as an example to create new blocks.

###  Health Score

45

—

FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance59

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community21

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity76

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

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 ~396 days

Recently: every ~588 days

Total

7

Last Release

268d ago

Major Versions

1.4.2 → 2.0.02025-06-22

PHP version history (3 changes)1.2PHP &gt;=5.6.0

1.4PHP &gt;=7.2.0

2.0.0PHP &gt;=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/37e2f8fe572978c883080d42e2ee8995928f6b301243fd393da25f33adb3a306?d=identicon)[yuriipavlov](/maintainers/yuriipavlov)

---

Top Contributors

[![yuriipavlov](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25429417?v=4)](https://github.com/yuriipavlov "yuriipavlov (350 commits)")[![DavidHalkin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/29730632?v=4)](https://github.com/DavidHalkin "DavidHalkin (239 commits)")[![vvv3](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12746700?v=4)](https://github.com/vvv3 "vvv3 (84 commits)")[![zyv4yk](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16142581?v=4)](https://github.com/zyv4yk "zyv4yk (38 commits)")[![Alekamerlin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54062392?v=4)](https://github.com/Alekamerlin "Alekamerlin (16 commits)")[![vsedzialo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45825940?v=4)](https://github.com/vsedzialo "vsedzialo (3 commits)")

---

Tags

starter-kitwordpresswordpress-boilerplatewordpress-developmentwordpress-starter-themewordpress-themewordpress-theme-developmentwordpressenvironmentboilerplatethemestarterstarter-kitsolidbunch

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