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

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 jQuery 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');

And in a format you can copy & paste into your theme:

/**
 * Enable features from Soil when plugin is activated
 * @link https://roots.io/plugins/soil/
 */
add_theme_support('soil-clean-up');
add_theme_support('soil-disable-asset-versioning');
add_theme_support('soil-disable-trackbacks');
add_theme_support('soil-google-analytics', 'UA-XXXXX-Y');
add_theme_support('soil-jquery-cdn');
add_theme_support('soil-js-to-footer');
add_theme_support('soil-nav-walker');
add_theme_support('soil-nice-search');
add_theme_support('soil-relative-urls');

Support

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

Contributing

Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started.

Community

Keep track of development and community news.

• Participate on the Roots Discourse
• Follow @rootswp on Twitter
• Read and subscribe to the Roots Blog
• Subscribe to the Roots Newsletter
• Listen to the Roots Radio podcast