New Plugin for Writing WordPress Theme JSON Files via YAML
I have a new favorite WordPress development-related plugin: Theme YAML. Sascha Paukner released it a mere day ago, and it may find its place in many theme developers’ toolboxes before long. It allows themers to write theme JSON in YAML format. To use, theme authors only need to create a new theme.yaml file and begin adding their custom configuration in the human-friendly YAML format. The plugin will convert it into JSON and save it to the theme.json file. As someone who has had his fair share of headaches writing directly in JSON, I have never been happier to look at the following in my code editor: That is pretty. I just wish I had thought of this plugin idea first. I routinely work with YAML files when dealing with other systems and convert the data to PHP and JSON. It just made sense as soon as I saw the plugin description. JSON is not the easiest-to-write format when dealing with configuration files, which is what the theme.json file is. It works well for cross-language data storage, but I sometimes cringe when opening a JSON file to type in, especially if it has 100s or 1,000s of lines. Plus, you cannot…
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