Script for generating an installable DX Theme from a WordPress Theme

This article lays out instructions for manually creating a custom DX Theme from an existing WordPress theme: Creating an IBM Digital Experience v8.5 theme from a WordPress theme

This script will generate all the necessary DX files for you, and bundle them into an installable PAA file. After installation, just strip out the remaining PHP code.

Instructions

1. Clone repository
2. Enter the root directory of your new repository
3. Run npm install
4. Run node script.js name=**"NAME OF THE NEW DX THEME"** wpRemoteZipPath=**path.to.the.wordpress.theme.zip** wpRootFolder=**name-of-the-root-folder-in-the-wordpress-zip** (eg: node script.js name="Twenty Sixteen" wpRemoteZipPath=https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/twentysixteen.1.1.zip wpRootFolder=twentysixteen)
5. Read the personalized installation and code update instructions generated in the output/output_name.html file
6. Refer to the full manual instructions for advanced use cases and trouble-shooting