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

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1. Front-­‐end  Workflow  with  Sass  &   WordPress   Aisha  Henderson  
2. SASSY  CSS  &  WORDPRESS  
3. SASS   (Syntac*cally  Awesome  StyleSheets)  
4. SASS?    
5. INSTALL  SASS  
6. INSTALL  SASS  
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  
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  
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;   }  
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;}  
11. UNDERSCORES.ME  
12. STYLE.SCSS  
13. SASS  FOLDER  STRUCTURE  
14. PARTIALS  
16. VARIABLES  
17. NESTING  
18. MIXINS  
19. EXTEND  
20. SASS  MAPS  
21. SASS  FUNCTIONS  
22. MEDIA  QUERIES  
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  
24. SOURCE  MAPS  FOR  SASS  
25. ENABLING  SOURCE  MAPS   IN  THE  BROWSER  
27. Sources   www.abookapart.com/ products/sass-­‐for-­‐web-­‐designers   www.jasonreece.com/sites/atl-­‐ sass-­‐meetup/2015-­‐02/  
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    
29. QuesFons?  Comments?   Concerns?   Aisha  Henderson   @AH_WebDesign   AishaHenderson.com   Aisha.Henderson@gmail.com