# ahmadawais/WPGulp

An advanced Gulp workflow for WordPress development with extensive documentation. Used by 40,000+ themes and plugins.

Repository: https://github.com/ahmadawais/WPGulp
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wpgulp
Homepage: https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: wpgulp, wordpress-plugin, wordpress-gulp-workflow, workflow, minification, translation, theme, javascript
Last push: 2022-12-02T11:15:29+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": 3927, "days_push": 1370, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1751, forks 292 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:31.678943+00:00)

## What it is
WPGulp is an advanced, extensively documented Gulp.js build workflow for WordPress themes and plugins, offering zero-config startup with a configurable wpgulp.config.js. It automates Sass compilation, JS concatenation and minification, live reload, and translation tasks.

## Use cases
- set up a gulp build workflow for a wordpress theme
- compile sass to css for wordpress plugins
- minify and concatenate javascript in wordpress development
- live reload browser while developing wordpress themes
- generate translation files for wordpress plugins
- automate wordpress asset build pipeline

## When to choose
- you develop WordPress themes or plugins and want a ready-made Gulp pipeline
- you want zero-config Sass, JS, and live-reload tooling for WordPress
- you need a well-documented, widely adopted WordPress build workflow

## When to avoid
- your project uses modern bundlers like Vite or webpack instead of Gulp
- you don't develop for WordPress
- you need actively maintained tooling with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: build-tool, developer-tools, cli
- domain: web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: wordpress, gulp, sass, live-reload, minification, theme-development, build-workflow, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- ahmadawais/WPGulp (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:31.678943+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 2026-08-30T03:28:32.788608+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ahmadawais/WPGulp (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:31.678943+00:00, sha 4c855dad412f)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/wpgulp (fetched 2026-08-29T11:06:40.077041+00:00, sha 66f5f9245be0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.