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Release

If your theme is ready for production use, you can use the following methods to create your theme zip file.

GitHub workflow

TailPress comes with a GitHub action workflow located in .github/workflows/release.yml. This will make sure your composer dependencies are installed and optimized, your assets are compiled and a ZIP-file of your theme is created as a release asset.

This workflow is triggered when you create a new release of your theme at GitHub.

Using TailPress CLI

TailPress ships with a release script which allows you to create a zip file of your theme. The script will mirror your theme folder, make sure the composer dependencies are optimized and assets are compiled. It will also remove files and folders listed in .distignore.

To use it, run:

1./vendor/bin/tailpress-cli release <destination-path> <zipfile-name>

Manually

If you want to make your theme ready for production manually, please take in consideration that:

  • You should run composer install with the --no-dev and --optimize-autoloader flags, to prevent development packages being included
  • Run npm run build to compile your assets for production use
  • Check your not including files and folders such as node_modules, .github etc. as they are not needed in production. You can take a look at .distignore for files you might want to remove

You should not run this on your local development version of the theme, but rather make a copy of it and then finally zip the end result.