# welaika/wordless

All the power of Pug, Sass, Coffeescript and WebPack in your WordPress theme. Stop writing themes like it's 1998.

Repository: https://github.com/welaika/wordless
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wordless
Homepage: https://www.wptools.it/wordless
Language: PHP
License Family: other
Topics: php, wordpress, wordpress-starter-theme, sass, pug, pug-template-engine, jade, webpack, yarn, scss, es6, es2015, babel, core-js, plugin, theme, framework, development, wordpress-boilerplate
Last push: 2023-04-28T14:11:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5406, "days_push": 1223, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1421, forks 106 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:40.641326+00:00)

## What it is
Wordless is a WordPress plugin and theme boilerplate that brings modern tooling (Pug templating, Sass/SCSS, Babel, WebPack, BrowserSync) to custom WordPress theme development. It provides a structured theme organization, WP-CLI theme bootstrapping, and a set of PHP helper functions for views.

## Use cases
- build a custom WordPress theme with modern tooling
- write WordPress templates with Pug instead of raw PHP
- use Sass/SCSS in a WordPress theme
- set up live reload and WebPack build for WordPress theme development
- bootstrap a new WordPress theme via wp-cli
- transpile modern JavaScript with Babel in a WordPress theme

## When to choose
- you want an opinionated, structured starter theme with Pug and Sass
- you develop WordPress themes and want WebPack, BrowserSync, and Babel out of the box
- you prefer wp-cli-based theme scaffolding

## When to avoid
- you use block-based/full-site-editing WordPress themes
- you prefer plain PHP templates without a build step
- you need a project with an explicit license or very active maintenance

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: templating, build-tool, web-framework, boilerplate, cli
- domain: web-development, cms, developer-tools, frontend
- platform: php, cli
- tags: wordpress, wordpress-theme, pug, sass, webpack, theme-boilerplate, wp-cli, babel, browsersync, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- welaika/wordless (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.641326+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:47.262214+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/welaika/wordless (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.641326+00:00, sha bb34e309b30f)
  - homepage: https://www.wptools.it/wordless (fetched 2026-08-29T11:50:03.981886+00:00, sha 21aff81dd140)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.