• [HOTFIX] Fixed config.json not being created during setup.
• [HOTFIX] Fixed overly aggressive security check preventing CLI interactions.

Note: until we hit 1.0.0, minor versions will be considered major (i.e. may include breaking changes). Note: also check out the WP Emerge 0.10.0 release changelog as it has important changes.

Major Changes

• A new documentation website with improved docs, search and features is up: https://docs.wpemerge.com/#/starter-theme/overview
• Added a config.json file which contains config options for the theme such as your development site URL and shared variables between PHP, SASS and JS. This files essentially acts as a single source of truth for shared variables.
• theme/alternative/blade/ now contains .blade.php equivalents for all theme views which you should replace your .php with if you have htmlburger/wpemerge-blade installed.

Other Changes

• yarn dev and yarn build will now clear the dist/ directory of leftover files.
• Vendor files (e.g. _vendor.scss) have been replaced with vendor/ directories which have all their files autoloaded using globs.
• Added new yarn i18n commands which:
  • Update your translation function calls with the proper textdomain.
  • Update your app.pot file with all strings based on translation function calls throughout your codebase.
• yarn dev's --dev-url parameter has been removed in favor of config.json.
• Added Russian localization (props @9585999 )
• Updated the htmlburger/carbon-pagination dependency to resolve an issue with WooCommerce.
• Updated FontAwesome installed version to 5.
• Bootstrap will now load its JS as well (including popper.js) for new installs.
• Various minor adjustments to the webpack configs.
• Various minor improvements.

• Moved front-end styles and scripts to their own theme/ directories.
• Added color palette support for Gutenberg blocks.
• Added font size support for Gutenberg blocks.
• Used a generic app.php layout for all views (https://docs.wpemerge.com/view/layouts.html).
• Added Normalize.css as an install option during setup.
• Added Tailwind CSS as an install option during setup.
• Renamed @build alias to @dist for consistency.
• Fixed post-meta.php partial not loading correctly.
• Yarn commands should now display colors in the terminal.
• Improved WPCS compliance.
• WPCS is now installed by default and is used in yarn lint and yarn lint-fix.
• Various codebase quality and consistency improvements.
• Various docs improvements.

• Added support for WP Emerge's Advanced Error Reporting.
• Added yarn wpcs command.
• Various documentation improvements.

• Fixed support for vendor directories outside of the theme root (props @elvishp2006).
• Removed explicitly copied image files from the build step - image files that are not used in any css file should be explicitly imported in js/css for them to be included in dist/.
• Fixed .ico and .gif files not being included in build step.
• Added eslint (props @elvishp2006) and stylelint (props @paulomfr) - check out the new Yarn Scripts documentation article for more information.
• Added an example theme screenshot.
• Significant improvement in documentation coverage (there is still a lot more to be done).

First official release. Please check https://wpemerge.com/ for more information.