Eightshift Development Kit
All the tools you need to start building a modern WordPress project, using all the latest front end development tools.
A WordPress boilerplate from the future
Eightshift Development kit makes building complex WordPress themes and plugins painless.Use and extend our block and component collection to build out dynamic Gutenberg blocks. Extract commonly-used UI elements into reusable components. Forget about block registration and save callbacks. Build a REST route in minutes.
You'll never want to go back!
Get started in minutes, not hours
Boilerplate your project in a few simple steps. Get instructions for setting up an Eightshift DevKit theme or plugin, run a command (or two) and start coding. It's that easy!
I want a new WordPress theme
New themeI want a new WordPress plugin
New pluginBatteries included
The DevKit is feature-packed, with a bunch of cool things making the lives of developers and end-users easier!
Custom Block Editor blocks
Build a dynamic block faster than you can say Gutenberg. With automatic block registration and top-notch attribute handling, you'll be shipping blocks in record time.
Sustainable, like code should be
All our code follows battle-tested programming practices. OOP? Check. Unit tests? Double-check. Code doc blocks, linters for coding standards and great documentation? Triple-check.
Eightshift Libs
Library aimed at bringing the modern development tools to your project.
WP Boilerplate
Include features you need, and leave out the ones you don't using our powerful WP-CLI tooling.
As responsive as it can get
Declare breakpoints once, use them everywhere — from media queries to blocks. Override any attribute value for particular breakpoints without breaking a sweat. Need to tweak that width for tablets? Done.
A build process to love
Eightshift Development kit comes with Webpack pre-configured, so you can start building your JavaScript and CSS assets from the start. Vendor prefixes? Polyfills? SCSS compilation? Asset minification? All taken care of!
First-class CSS variables
Forget about conditional classnames: build out CSS variables from attribute values and scope them to a particular block with almost no code.
Cache busting
Each time you build assets, we generate a new URL for each asset file. This means you'll never see the old cached version while developing or after pushing your code to production.
OOP: The good way to write PHP code
Object-oriented programming is at the core of Eightshift Development kit, making your projects cleaner and allowing you to extend and replace functionality.
Eightshift Frontend Libs
A collection of useful front-end utility modules and all the tools you need to start building modern Block Editor dynamic blocks.
An editing experience content editors will love
Provide the ease of use and flexibility that your content editors crave for. Rely on our user-friendly default blocks or use plug&play editor components to build great experiences.
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