I love Beaver Builder. I have tried a number of page builders and hated them all, until I met Beaver Builder. I use it on quite a few of projects now, but for clients and personally. For larger, more detailed sites I will still build a custom theme and use the Beaver Builder plugin to control page layouts. On smaller, lower budget sites, I have been using Beaver Builder’s theme and my own child theme.
The guys over at Beaver Builder are kind enough to throw in their own child theme which I recommend using with the main theme. However, I have taken their child theme and implemented my own Gulp.js workflow.
To get started, run the following in your wp-content/themes directory.
git clone https://github.com/stephengreer08/bb-theme-child theme-nameThen cd into the theme directory and get gulp fired up by running
npm installNow you can run Gulp
gulp
gulp watchFeedback and PRs welcome. Feel free to give it a go on your next project.
Check it out on Github – https://github.com/stephengreer08/bb-theme-child
Stephen is a full stack web engineer.
He works as a lead engineer for FanSided, a media company running 300+ sport and entertainment websites.