centro-axis

Basic Child Theme for Centro Axis Theme Framework: https://github.com/understrap/understrap

How it works

Centro Axis Theme shares with the parent theme all PHP files and adds its own functions.php on top of the Centro Axis parent theme's functions.php.

IT DOES NOT LOAD THE PARENT THEMES CSS FILE(S)! Instead it uses the Centro Axis Parent Theme as a dependency via npm and compiles its own CSS file from it.

Centro Axis Theme uses the Enqueue method to load and sort the CSS file the right way instead of the old @import method.

Installation

1. Install the parent theme Centro Axis first: https://github.com/understrap/understrap
   • IMPORTANT: If you download Centro Axis from GitHub make sure you rename the "understrap-master.zip" file to "understrap.zip" or you might have problems using this child theme!
2. Upload the centro-axis folder to your wp-content/themes directory
3. Go into your WP admin backend
4. Go to "Appearance -> Themes"
5. Activate the Centro Axis theme

Editing

Add your own CSS styles to /sass/theme/_child_theme.scss or import you own files into /sass/theme/centro-axis.scss

To overwrite Bootstrap's or Centro Axis's base variables just add your own value to: /sass/theme/_child_theme_variables.scss

For example, the "$brand-primary" variable is used by both Bootstrap and Centro Axis.

Add your own color like: $brand-primary: #ff6600; in /sass/theme/_child_theme_variables.scss to overwrite it. This change will automatically apply to all elements that use the $brand-primary variable.

It will be outputted into: /css/centro-axis.min.css and /css/centro-axis.css

So you have one clean CSS file at the end and just one request.

Developing With NPM, Gulp, SASS and Browser Sync

Installing Dependencies

• Make sure you have installed Node.js, Gulp, and Browser-Sync [1] on your computer globally
• Open your terminal and browse to the location of your Centro Axis copy
• Run: $ npm install then: $ gulp copy-assets

Running

To work and compile your Sass files on the fly start:

• $ gulp watch

Or, to run with Browser-Sync:

• First change the browser-sync options to reflect your environment in the file /gulpconfig.json in the beginning of the file:

  "browserSyncOptions" : {
    "proxy": "localhost/wordpress/",
    "notify": false
  }
};

• then run: $ gulp watch-bs

[1] Visit https://browsersync.io/ for more information on Browser Sync