STARTER

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

Table of content

About
Installation & Usage
DOCUMENTATION
Contributing
License

❔ About

This theme keeps your time: it provides main ecommerce pages ready to 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

easy to customize layout
it developed in according with WPCS so existing custom code is secure
load speed ready: load time for dekstop is under 1 second, for is mobile under 3 seconds; the weight of homepage and catalog is only about 300kb, the weight of single product page is only about 200kb.
Details
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.
lighthouse: seo, best practice, accessability is 100! Performance (aka google pagespeed): it's 90-100 for homepage, shop, category, support and simple pages, but for single unknown reason it's 80+ for single page.
Details
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.
retina ready
extended by a few cool features: filters, google fonts, comments, menus.

‼️ 1 reason not to use

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)

🔧 Installation & Usage

✅ Requirements

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

WordPress >= 5.5
ACF >= 5.9.0

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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.
Classic Editor >= 1.6
EWWW Image Optimizer >= 5.7.0

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

TinyMCE Advanced >= 5.5.0

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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

WooCommerce >= 4.4.1
Advanced Woo Search >= 2.09 (see Widgets (search, minicart, wishlist) in menu)
W3 Total Cache >= 0.14.4

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W3TC used for optimize page cache and js only.
Node.js = 14.x

Version's details
Tested with versions v14.8.0 and v14.15.3, but it should works with any 14.x version.
Due short life-cycle of node v15 Starter will never officially compatible with node v15.
gulp = 2.3.0 (how to install - see next step Setup)

🔧 Setup

Install Requirements
Install gulp globally (if it's not installed yet) - do it once
```
npm i --global gulp-cli
```
Go to theme folder and run cmd/terminal and install packages
```
npm i
```
Setup your local domain in config.js: replace each 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

WP Widget in Navigation >= 2.0.1 (see Widgets (search, minicart, wishlist) in menu)
TI WooCommerce Wishlist >= 1.21.2 (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 >= 14.8.1
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After installation go to SEO->Search Appearance-> tab Breadcrumbs and enable 'Enable Breadcrumbs'