cjwd / soil

A WordPress plugin which contains a collection of modules to apply theme-agnostic front-end modifications

Soil

A WordPress plugin which contains a collection of modules to apply theme-agnostic front-end modifications.

Soil is a commercial plugin available from https://roots.io/plugins/soil/. It's hosted on a public GitHub repository to allow for contributions from the community. It's also published on Packagist to allow easier installation with Composer.

Requirements

Prerequisite	How to check	How to install
PHP >= 5.4.x	php -v	php.net

Installation

You can install this plugin via the command-line or the WordPress admin panel.

via Command-line

If you're using Composer to manage WordPress, add Soil to your project's dependencies.

composer require roots/soil 3.6.2

Then activate the plugin via wp-cli.

wp plugin activate soil

via WordPress Admin Panel

1. Download the latest zip of this repo.
2. In your WordPress admin panel, navigate to Plugins->Add New
3. Click Upload Plugin
4. Upload the zip file that you downloaded.

Modules

• Cleaner WordPress markup
  add_theme_support('soil-clean-up');

• Disable asset versioning
  add_theme_support('soil-disable-asset-versioning');

• Disable trackbacks
  add_theme_support('soil-disable-trackbacks');

• Google Analytics (more info)
  add_theme_support('soil-google-analytics', 'UA-XXXXX-Y');

• Load jQuery from the Google CDN
  add_theme_support('soil-jquery-cdn');

• Move all JS to the footer
  add_theme_support('soil-js-to-footer');

• Cleaner walker for navigation menus
  add_theme_support('soil-nav-walker');

• Convert search results from /?s=query to /search/query/
add_theme_support('soil-nice-search');

• Root relative URLs
  add_theme_support('soil-relative-urls');

Support

Use the Roots Discourse to ask questions and get support. License is required.