STARTER

Starter WooCommerce theme, how it looks/works by default see here https://starter-demo.dakha.info/shop.
Open source, free to use - MIT license.

Table of content

• About
• Installation & Usage
  • Requirements
  • Setup
  • Build commands
  • Highly recommended/integrated to theme plugins
• DOCUMENTATION
• Contributing
• License

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❔ About

This theme keeps your time: it provides main ecommerce pages ready for easy and fast customize (home, catalog, single page) and a few great features which usually used or must have.

✔️ 6 main reasons to use Starter

1. easy to customize layout
2. it developed in according with WPCS so existing custom code is secure
3. load speed ready: load time for dekstop is under 1 second, for mobile is under 3 seconds; the weight of homepage and catalog is only about 300kb, the weight of single product page is only about 200kb.
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   Please note: load time and weight of pages described above - it's Starter as is, without any third-party resources. When you'll add google analitycs, gtm etc - it will down and it's ok.
4. lighthouse: seo, best practice, accessability is 100! Performance (aka google pagespeed): it's 96-100 for homepage, shop, category, product page, support and simple pages.
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   Please note #1: lighthouse metrics described above - it's Starter as is, without any third-party resources. When you'll add google analitycs, gtm etc - it will down and it's ok. Please note #2: Performance metric is vary from time to time +-5 points and it's ok.
5. retina ready
6. extended by a few cool features (plugin-less): ajax filter/sort/pagination, color filters, filter display types, google fonts, comments, menus.

‼️ 1 reason not to use

1. frontend plugins (which affects to home, catalog, single) are require code integration via shortcodes or functions usually - due theme does not used hooks for these pages (i.e. just "install plugin and activate" - does not works)

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🔧 Installation & Usage

✅ Requirements

Probably Starter will works with other plugin versions - but with versions below it's tested.

• WordPress >= 5.9

• ACF >= 5.11.4

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  You can to install: "ACF Pro" - all features available or Basic ACF - is not available Home Page features and you'll not see comment images in admin due gallery and repeater features are not available in free version.
  After installation go to ACF and sync fields.

• Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced) >= 5.6.0

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  After installation copy settings

  {
    "settings": {
      "toolbar_1":"bold,italic,underline,forecolor,blockquote,bullist,numlist,alignleft,aligncenter,alignright,alignjustify,link,unlink,undo,redo,wp_adv",
      "toolbar_2":"formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect,styleselect,pastetext,removeformat,fullscreen",
      "toolbar_3":"",
      "toolbar_4":"",
      "options":"advlist,menubar_block,merge_toolbars",
      "plugins":"advlist",
      "toolbar_block":"core\/image,core\/image",
      "toolbar_block_side":"tadv\/sup,tadv\/sub,core\/strikethrough,core\/code,tadv\/mark,tadv\/removeformat",
      "panels_block":"tadv\/color-panel,tadv\/background-color-panel",
      "toolbar_classic_block":"formatselect,bold,italic,blockquote,bullist,numlist,alignleft,aligncenter,alignright,link,forecolor,backcolor,table,wp_help"
    },
    "admin_settings": {
      "options":"hybrid_mode,classic_paragraph_block,table_resize_bars,table_grid,table_tab_navigation,table_advtab",
      "disabled_editors":""
    }
  }

  Go to settings And paste here

• Classic Editor >= 1.6.2

• EWWW Image Optimizer >= 6.4.1

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  After installation go to EWWW setting and enable 'WebP Conversion' & 'Force WebP'.

• W3 Total Cache >= 2.2.1

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  W3TC used for optimize page cache and js only.

• Node.js = 17.x.x (**IMPORTANT for Windows: be sure that you're using x86 version, e.g. v17)

• gulp = 4.0.2 (how to install - see next step Setup)

🔧 Setup

1. Install Requirements
2. Install gulp globally (if it's not installed yet) - do it once

   npm i --global gulp-cli

3. Go to theme folder and run cmd/terminal and install packages

   npm i

4. Setup your local domain in config.js: replace yourdomain into your local domain - it's required for browserSync and for Critical CSS

🚀 Build commands

Default task (for development):

gulp

Open site with port 4000 to get browserSync reloads.

Production task:

gulp production

👍 Highly recommended/integrated to theme plugins

• WooCommerce >= 6.2.0
• Advanced Woo Search >= 2.47 (see Widgets (search, minicart, wishlist) in menu)
• TI WooCommerce Wishlist >= 1.40.1 (see Widgets (search, minicart, wishlist) in menu)
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  After installation go to TI Wishlist and setup minimum recommnded settings. You can to play with other settings.
• Yoast SEO >= 18.1
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  After installation go to SEO->Search Appearance-> tab Breadcrumbs and enable 'Enable Breadcrumbs'
• WP Widget in Navigation >= 3.0.1 (see Widgets (search, minicart, wishlist) in menu)

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🤝 Contributing

Please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

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📘 License

MIT