Pitchfork Blocks

A plugin for use with the Pitchfork theme for WordPress.

This plugin adds blocks and block patterns for the block editor consistent with the ASU Unity Design system for web standards.

Requires at least: WP 6.0 Tested up to: 6.0 Requires PHP: 7.3 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Contributors

• Steve Ryan (ASU Engineering)
• Zainab Alsidiki, Justin Holloway, Walt McConnell, Nathan Rollins, Cindy Zisner (ASU Knowledge Enterprise)

Usage Requirements

• Download the lastest release from Github.
• Install in the normal WP location for plugins which is typically /wp-content/plugins.

Recommended / Required Additional Plugins

This plugin contains blocks that are constructed with the use of Advanced Custom Fields Pro.

• The ACF Pro plugin is also required by the Pitchfork theme.
• The theme contains a script which will prompt the user to install this plugin upon theme activation.
• ASU Engineering provides a licensed copy of this plugin within its standard distribution of WordPress on the Pantheon hosting platform.

Plugin updates can optionally be managed from the admin dashboard through the use of Git Updater.

Includes

This plugin leverages the following libraries for functionality delivered within certain blocks.

• This plugin loads a copy of the SASS files from the Bootstrap 4 library within the ASU Unity design kit. It includes only the design tokens for easier SASS references and expects that the theme will load the remainder of the required BS4 files.

• The breadcrumb block is an ACF wrapper for the Hybrid Breadcrumbs composer-based assset for including breadcrumbs.

• The sidebar block makes use of a custom ACF field group for menu selection which can be found within the ASU Engineering's GitHub organization.

• Several blocks now also take advantage of a dedicated ACF field for picking an icon from the Font Awesome library. This field is provided by the ACF Font Awesome Field plugin which is now a recommended plugin for the Pitchfork theme.

Development

• Run npm install and composer install prior to local development.
• SASS and JS compile & watch tasks are triggered via Gulp WP and npx gulp-wp from the project root.

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG.md for the a list of all improvements made to the theme.

We also keep similar notes in the releases section of our project for an overview of what changed with each release.