Keep theme code in a subdirectory

[szepeviktor]

e.g. theme
like in https://github.com/timber/starter-theme/tree/2.x

Again: separation of config files, documents -------------- and -------------- application code.

🦸🏻‍♂️ This is a secret WordPress core feature, needs no configuration at all.

[kasparsd]

Can you please elaborate on this one? This already has the theme in a sub-directory.

The prototype is specifically attempting to design a system where some themes, plugins and other dependencies would be developed as part of the same repo. The reason for that is to avoid the composer version update dance whenever a set of dependencies are updated.

Do you know any projects that do this?

[szepeviktor]

Do you know any projects that do this?

Yes. Timber: https://github.com/timber/starter-theme/tree/2.x

Currently two kind of files are mixed.

1. config files, for example package-lock.json
2. and theme code, for example functions.php

Simply create a subdirectory inside the theme and move theme code into that directory: https://github.com/timber/starter-theme/tree/2.x/theme

So clean, @kasparsd. So clean!

[szepeviktor]

🤫 WP core's code that finds this subdirectory automatically:
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/89e99f57a2a175ccb75282d1a7eefb0bfce94bcb/wp-includes/theme.php#L515