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Introduction

Custom WordPress themes, now with Tailwind

Get started quickly, and deploy to production sooner than you expect

Quickstart

Installation

  1. Generate your theme
  2. Unzip the archive
  3. Move the entire unzipped folder to wp-content/themes in your local WordPress installation
  4. Run npm install && npm run dev in the moved folder
  5. Activate the theme in your local WordPress installation

Development

  1. Run npm run watch
  2. Add Tailwind utility classes with abandon

Deployment

  1. Run npm run bundle
  2. Upload the resulting zip file to your site using the “Upload Theme” button on the “Add Themes” administration page

Have more complex deployment requirements? I’ve received reports of successful deployments via GitHub Actions, Envoyer, Deployer and Capistrano. For more details, please see the deployment documentation.

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