WordPressify

WordPress, without the WordPress workflow

WordPressify is the studio's own build system, open sourced in 2017 and maintained ever since. It exists because theme work had been left behind: the front end had moved on to modules, preprocessors and live reload, while a WordPress theme was still a folder you uploaded and refreshed by hand.

One command brings up the whole environment — database, PHP, web server and asset pipeline — with nothing installed locally but Docker.

Block themes, first class

The scaffold is a modern block theme — theme.json, block templates, template parts and patterns — copied straight into the theme directory as they are edited, so the site editor and the build agree on what a theme is.

The documentation runs on Doccupine, and the tool sits beside the rest of the studio's open-source work: the same argument, applied to whatever the platform happens to be.