Sass and WordPress: Enhancing Your Front-End Workflow

An awesome workflow can save you many hours, which in turn provides more freedom to spend time doing things to relax your mind :-)
I will cover how to start your theme development with Sass and WordPress, using Underscores as the starter theme. While this session is geared towards beginning WordPress theme designers I recommend this for anyone inquiring about Sass and it’s awesome features. Let’s Get Sassy!

The goal is to walk away with a basic understanding of:

Using GUIs with Sass
Sass Folder structure
Some of Sass Features:
Variables
Nesting
Partials
@mixins
functions
@extend
Sass Maps
Source Mapping using Chrome DevTools

Transcript

1. Front-­‐end  Workflow  with  Sass  &  
   WordPress  
   Aisha  Henderson  
   

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2. SASSY  CSS  &  WORDPRESS  
   

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3. SASS  
   (Syntac*cally  Awesome  StyleSheets)  
   

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4. SASS?  
    
   

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5. INSTALL  SASS  
   

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6. INSTALL  SASS  
   

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7. SASS  COMPILER  
   Libsass  
   •  C++  re-­‐implementaFon  
   of  the  Ruby-­‐based  Sass  
   compiler  
   •  Faster  compile  Fmes,  
   much  faster!  
   Ruby  Sass  
   •  Ruby-­‐based  Sass  
   compiler  
   •  Typically  slower  compile  
   Fmes,  compared  to  
   Libsass  
   

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8. SASS  SYNTAX  
   SCSS  
   •  File  extension  .scss    
   •  It  doesn’t  require  a  shiS  
   in  code  formaTng  
   •  Easily  convert  an  
   exisFng  stylesheet  to  
   use  Sass’s  funcFonality  
   SASS  
   •  File  extension  .sass    
   •  Indented  syntax  
   •  Stripped  down,  no  curly  
   braces  or  semicolons  
   

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9. CHOOSE  AN  OUTPUT  STYLE  
   •  Nested  (the  default)  
   ol  {  
      margin:  10px  0;  
      padding:  10px  0;  }  
      ol  li  {  
          font-­‐size:  2em;  
          line-­‐height:  1.4;  }  
          ol  li  p  {  
              color:  #333;  }  
   •  Expanded  
   ol  {  
      margin:  10px  0;  
      padding:  10px  0;  
   }  
      
   ol  li  {  
      font-­‐size:  2em;  
      line-­‐height:  1.4;  
   }  
      
   ol  li  p  {  
      color:  #333;  
   }  
   

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10. CHOOSE  AN  OUTPUT  STYLE  
    •  Compact  
     
    ol  {  margin:  10px  0;  
    padding:  10px  0;  }  
    ol  li  {  font-­‐size:  2em;  line-­‐
    height:  1.4;  }  
    ol  li  p  {  color:  #333;  }  
    •  Compressed  
    ol{margin:10px  0;padding:
    10px  0;}ol  li{font-­‐size:
    2em;line-­‐height:1.4;}ol  li  
    p{color:#333;}  
    

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11. UNDERSCORES.ME  
    

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12. STYLE.SCSS  
    

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13. SASS  FOLDER  STRUCTURE  
    

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14. PARTIALS  
    

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16. VARIABLES  
    

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17. NESTING  
    

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18. MIXINS  
    

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19. EXTEND  
    

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20. SASS  MAPS  
    

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21. SASS  FUNCTIONS  
    

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22. MEDIA  QUERIES  
    

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23. SOURCE  MAPS  FOR  SASS  
    If  you  look  in  your  output  folder  aFer  running  that  command,  you'll  no*ce  
    that  a  comment  has  been  added  to  the  end  of  the  generated  CSS  file:  
    At  The  Command  Line  
    

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24. SOURCE  MAPS  FOR  SASS  
    

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25. ENABLING  SOURCE  MAPS  
    IN  THE  BROWSER  
    

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27. Sources  
    www.abookapart.com/
    products/sass-­‐for-­‐web-­‐designers  
    www.jasonreece.com/sites/atl-­‐
    sass-­‐meetup/2015-­‐02/  
    

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28. Resources  
    •  hip://sass-­‐lang.com  
    •  hip://thesassway.com    
    •  hip://abookapart.com/products/sass-­‐for-­‐
    web-­‐designers  
    •  hip://www.sassnews.com/sassnews  
    •  hip://sassmeister.com  
    •  hip://thesassway.com/intermediate/using-­‐
    source-­‐maps-­‐with-­‐sass    
    

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29. QuesFons?  Comments?  
    Concerns?  
    Aisha  Henderson  
    @AH_WebDesign  
    AishaHenderson.com  
    Aisha.Henderson@gmail.com  
     
    

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