Theme Development with Sage Book
3rd Edition • Updated 2018
Build well organized & easily maintained WordPress themes using a modern web development workflow.
The latest edition covers up to Sage 9 — there currently isn’t an ETA on the Sage 10 update
98 pages • PDF, ePub, MOBI, Website • No DRM
- 3rd Edition
- 2nd Edition
- 1st Edition
Table of contents
- What is Sage?
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Why Sage?
- Professionally maintained
- Widely used and trusted
- Community support
- A modern build process
- Blade templating engine
- Template inheritance
- Sage helps you become a better developer
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Starting a project
- Installing the Sage starter theme
- Theme setup
- Planning out the theme
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Customizing templates
- Blade templates
- Template files
- Building template partials
- Responsive images & post thumbnails
- Displaying the sidebar
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Customizing the front-end
- CSS setup and organization
- Default CSS and JS
- Bootstrap
- Browsersync
- JavaScript and DOM-based routing
- 3rd party packages
- Asset paths in CSS and templates
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Theme functionality
- Adding additional files
- Namespaces
- Take advantage of newer PHP features
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Theme customizations
- WordPress Customizer
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Theme deployment
- Theme updates and maintenance
- Resources
Testimonials
Just a quick note to say how much I appreciate the third edition. I bought the book last year and was a bit worried about getting started with 8.x and then having to learn 9. The new book is awesome – it’s clear and concise and very readable, with just enough info to be helpful without being overwhelming. As a relative newbie, I especially like the advice on setting my Mac up and your tips for the best way to do things. I’ve gotta say, that far from being put off by Blade, it makes a lot of sense to me and I can’t wait to dig in! Thanks for steering us all in the right direction…
Just skimmed the new Sage 9 book. Already picked up a dozen new tricks, for Sage or otherwise. Chock-full with best practices. Thx @retlehs 👍
For anyone serious about developing with Sage, get the book. It’s worth every cent.
The Sage theme development book has altered my approach to building #wordpress themes. A few bumps and bruises but thanks @retlehs
Your Theme Development with Sage book has really got me up to speed today! A productive start, thank you =)
Hey Ben, I just wanted to say a quick thanks for Roots / Sage & the Sage dev book I purchased. Finally found time to go through it this week and, well, I’m impressed! So yeah, thanks a bunch! :)
The book answered most of my newbie questions quite thoroughly – especially on best practises and the theory behind the folder structures etc.