A react-based theme for WordPress.

Want to try out the theme? Download or clone this repo into your /themes folder, then run npm to install and build the javascript & CSS files. The process will look like this

git clone https://github.com/ryelle/Foxhound foxhound
cd foxhound
npm install
npm run build

Now you'll see a build/app.js file in the theme, and it will be available for you to switch to in wp-admin. If you're having trouble getting the theme active, please file an issue & I'll help you out.

If you don't have npm installed, you can find instructions on the npm website.

Since this is a more "experimental" theme, you'll need to have a few things set up before it'll work.

1. WordPress 4.7 or higher, which includes the REST API content endpoints.
2. You'll also need this WP-API Menus plugin. The REST API doesn't provide an endpoint for menus, so another plugin is necessary.
3. Your permalinks will need to be set to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/. Single-post/page views will not work without permalinks set. Category & tag archives bases should be set to category and tag, respectively.

This theme supports your average blogging site. It looks best with "Front page displays" set to latest posts (in Settings > Reading), however it does support a static page & blog posts on another page. This theme works best for very text-focused sites. It will display featured images on single posts & pages, but not on archive/list views. There is currently no special handling for post formats.

These are a few of the packages/plugins that made this theme possible.

• WP-API Plugin (Core Proposal)
• WP API Menus Plugin
• node-wpapi
• wordpress-rest-api-oauth-1
• react-document-meta
• react-router-scroll
• & of course, Mel Choyce for designing all the things.

If you'd like to work on Foxhound, or use it to fork and build your own theme, there are a few other NPM scripts you can run.

npm run dev runs webpack, with configuration enabling source maps. Eventually build will also compress/uglify built files, so this would skip that too (but that's currently disabled).

npm run watch runs webpack --watch, everything the previous command but it will also watch the source files for changes and recompile automatically. Best to run while developing. This does not live reload.

npm run lint runs eslint over all the javascript files. Webpack does this as well, before compiling, but only notifies you of errors. This command will catch warnings too.

On the PHP side, we're also adding in some prefixes for permalinks (also called routes).

This is very much a work-in-progress theme. If you notice anything acting strange, let me know, but it might just be that I haven't built that part yet. I also try to keep updated with new WP-API releases, but I might be a little delayed. Same deal - see anything really broken, let me know.