Create a new WordPress theme

Requirements

To have the smoothest development and setup experience, you need to install a few things on your computer. Please install these packages before you start the setup:

• Node.js
• Composer
• WP-CLI
• Git

Make sure that you have all these packages installed and ready to use on your system. To make sure that they work, run these commands:

• node -v
• composer -v
• wp --info
• git --version

If it doesn't return any errors, you are good to go.

Theme installation

Navigate to any folder in your WordPress project where you want to install a new theme and run this command:

npx eightshift-create theme

The script will install the latest version of the Setup script and run it. After the script is finished, please follow the instructions provided by the setup script.

Plugin installation

Navigate to any folder in your WordPress project where you want to install a new plugin and run this command:

npx eightshift-create plugin

The script will install the latest version of the Setup script and run it. After the script is finished, please follow the instructions provided by the setup script.

Specify version to create

If you want to specify some custom version for the packages you can use the following flags.

--setupRepoUrl
--setupRepoBranch
--setupLibsRepoBranch

You can get a list of available script arguments by running:

npx eightshift-create --help

Development

To do any development on the actual setup script you can run it locally by providing the full path to the script.

/<pwd_path>/eightshift-create.js theme /<pwd_path>/eightshift-create.js plugin