Introduction

Overview

Bricks (opens new window) is a WordPress starter theme with builtin Bootstrap 5 integration. It uses Gulp to manage tasks commonly needed in WordPress development.

It is built with modularity in mind, taking full advantage of get_template_part() both for templates and for theme functions.

It is jQuery-free, relying on VanillaJS both for its scripts and for external dependencies.

It is lightweight and SEO friendly, by optimizing all of its assets and using semantic HTML and best practices.

Main features

• Bootstrap 5 (opens new window) (compiled from source Sass and JavaScript files)
• WP Bootstrap Navwalker (opens new window)
• Custom Gulp (opens new window) tasks
• Font Awesome 6 (opens new window) (SVG with JavaScript version, parsed and minified by gulp-fa-minify (opens new window))
• CSS bundling, including Autoprefixer (opens new window) and PurgeCSS (opens new window)
• JavaScript bundling with Rollup (opens new window) and Babel (opens new window)
• Code linting with ESLint (opens new window), Stylelint (opens new window) and phpcs (opens new window).
• BrowserSync (opens new window) live server.
• Automatic conversion of custom fonts into woff2 web format
• Pre-localized templates in several languages ( 🇨🇿 Czech | 🇫🇷 French | 🇩🇪 German | 🇮🇹 Italian | 🇱🇹 Lithuanian | 🇪🇸 Spanish )
• Support for further localization by generation of a .pot template file (opens new window)
• Support for integration of some optional JavaScript libraries

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WARNING

Bricks was born as a personal project, and should be currently considered as a beta. It is perfectly usable and it is already a good foundation for a WordPress project, but there is room for improvement, and changes, even relevant ones, should be expected.

Contributions are warmly welcome, especially about:

• code quality
• best practices
• open-source project standards