Posted on 17th, October 2018 9:17 PM by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis
We have a love-hate relationship with Roots. What we’ve learned in the past 18 months of developing WordPress ecosystems with Trellis, Bedrock and Sage is that Roots claims to be a faster way to develop WordPress websites, but that’s not the whole story. Our experience has been that lack of clarity on what technology, […]
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Posted on 7th, December 2017 5:01 AM by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis, Ubuntu
The Issue Recently, I discovered that when I saved my code it was no longer appearing when I reloaded the website while working locally in development. This occurred along with this error so I thought they were connected. The Solution It turned out that when you run gulp –production that the Theme begins to look in […]
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Posted on 17th, November 2017 5:40 AM by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis, Ubuntu
Today I switched from my Mac to my Linux Ubuntu and attempted to continue working on a Roots site. After cloning it down and using vagrant up to start the server and the site. Then I noticed the sites styling was broken. So I looked at the main.css stylesheet and discovered it was not found. So […]
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Posted on 5th, November 2017 11:21 PM by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock
Disclaimer: First of all, if you don’t realize that there are possibly many causes for this type of issue, you probably need more experience in website development in general. Particularly mastering HTML and CSS. Today, I deployed a site to Staging. This means that I: Opened Terminal on my Mac / Linux Ubuntu machine. […]
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Posted on 5th, October 2017 6:53 AM by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock, Roots, Trellis
Earlier this year we began using Roots’ Trellis, Bedrock and Sage to develop and manage websites. While the system is everything WordPress should be. There are some things it should not be. One of them is temperamental, another is incredibly complicated. Today I’m working on our third project with Roots. But simultaneously with our second and […]
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Bedrock, PHP, Programming, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis
Aaaand we’re back. If you saw or read my previous two articles, those were related to project #2. This article, however, is related to project #3. The Problem I created the site and successfully worked on it on my Linux Ubuntu machine. I successfully deployed my work from development to staging went to bed. And then […]
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Bedrock, Linux, Mac, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis, Ubuntu
This year we began using Roots’ Trellis, Bedrock and Sage to develop and manage websites. So far, I’ve only successfully completed one. But I’m actively working on three others. All riddled with obnoxious problems that seem to appear out of nowhere. Luckily for me, I have four computers. Two Macs, one Windows and one Linux […]
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Posted on by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock, PHP, Programming, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis
Yet another error while using Roots’ Trellis, Bedrock and Sage during vagrant up on a brand new site, development locally on MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 My experience with Roots is that every time I use it I get a new error. Even if I didn’t change anything. The Problem Today the error began when I create […]
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Posted on 7th, April 2017 7:37 AM by Spencer Hill
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Bash / Shell, Bedrock, PHP, Programming, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis, Website Development
This article was written to document some of the specific challenges I had that other’s using Roots’ Trellis + Bedrock + Sage may experience as well. My hope is that anyone who gets stuck will be able to save themselves the many hours it cost me to track down these solutions and understand precisely why […]
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Posted on 27th, March 2017 7:02 PM by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis
I am developing a clients website with Trellis + Bedrock + Sage and Bootstrap 4. Bootstrap 4 no longer includes Font Awesome library by default so I had to learn how to include it in Sage by reading this forum thread on the Roots website. Short Answer Navigate to your Sage Theme folder from […]
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