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A ready-to-use starter theme built on HelixPress.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• WordPress 5.9+
• Composer
• Node.js 18+

Installation

# Clone into your WordPress themes directory
git clone https://github.com/zebardast-dev/helix-starter.git wp-content/themes/my-theme

cd wp-content/themes/my-theme

# Install PHP dependencies
composer install

# Install JS dependencies and build assets
npm install && npm run build

Activate the theme from WordPress admin, then copy .env.example to .env and configure.

Local Development (with framework symlink)

composer config repositories.helix-framework \
  '{"type":"path","url":"../helix-framework","options":{"symlink":true}}'

git update-index --assume-unchanged composer.json

composer install

CLI

php helix list
php helix cache:clear
php helix make:component Alert

Credits

HelixPress was developed through a human-AI collaborative workflow.

• Architecture & Product Direction: Mostafa Zebardast
• Research & Technical Analysis: ChatGPT & Claude
• Implementation & Coding: Mostafa Zebardast & Claude (Anthropic)
• Review & Refinement: AI-assisted

This project reflects human-led design decisions, with AI utilized as a development partner for drafting, research, and implementation.

License

MIT