themeversion

Retrieves the version number from a wordpress theme

The idea behind this was to replace some PHP code that did the same thing. I used the PHP in a bash script to automate building a release zip file. The bash script worked fine, but I wanted to use something like Gulp to manage the process.

So I have packaged this as an NPM package and you can install it using

npm i themeversion --save-dev

To use in gulp create a task like this

// gulpfile.js
const gulp = require('gulp');
const tv = require( 'themeversion' );

async function getVersionNumber() {
    try {
        const version = await tv.getVersion( 'styles.css' );
        console.log("Version", version ); // Output: Process completed
    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Error:', error);
    }
}

// Register the Gulp task
gulp.task('version', getVersionNumber);

You can do any processing taht needs the version number in the try.