Sublime Text

Installations

Mac OS

To install Sublime text on mac, visit download page and download .dmg file. Once its download, double click on it and follow the instructions.

Ubuntu

Use following commands to install Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y sublime-text-installer

Install Package Control

The simplest method of installation is through the Sublime Text console. The console is accessed via the ctrl+` shortcut or the View > Show Console menu. Once open, paste the appropriate Python code for your version of Sublime Text into the console.

Now once the console is open click on this link https://packagecontrol.io/installation an copy the python code from there and paste it in sublime console.

It will take some time and it can also happen that we need to restart the sublime 2-3 times

Installing package

Now, we assume that sublime package controller is being installed. To add package to sublime we need to open command palette. Try below keyboard shortcut to open it.

Mac OS:

Cmd+Shift+p (⌘+⇧+p)

Linux/Windows:

Ctrl+Shift+p

You will see that a popup open up then select "Package Control: Install Package" option and hit enter (it'll take a few seconds)

Once you have complete the above step a new popup will open up and then you can see list the packages.

Package List

Below are the list of most useful sublime package, you can find more useful packages at https://packagecontrol.io/browse.

AdvancedNewFile
Alignment
CSS Extended Completions
CSS3
DocBlockr
EditorConfig
Emmet
Git
GitGutter
HTML5
JSCS-Formatter
MarkdownTOC
PHPIntel
Phpcs
SCSS Expander
Sass
SassBeautify
SideBarEnhancements
SublimeGit
SyntaxHighlightTools
WordPress Completions
WordPress Customizer
WordPress Snippets
WordPress
jQuery

Project Setup for Development

Once its installed, you can start with the development on Sublime.

To setup project, use following steps:

  • Open project folder in Sublime
  • Save the project using Project > Save Project As... to your project folder, eg. PROJECT.sublime-project
  • Now open PROJECT.sublime-project file which you saved under your project and replace below code in the same file, and save it.
    {
    "folders":
    [
        {
            "path": ".",
            "follow_symlinks": true,
            "file_exclude_patterns": [ ".DS_Store", "style-expanded.css", "*.map", "readme*" ],
            "folder_exclude_patterns": [ ".sass-cache", "languages", ".phpintel", "node_modules" ]
        }
    ]
}

  • You can also add WordPress library for function references, add below code under [ … ] brackets,

    {
    "path": "~/Documents/wordpress",
    "follow_symlinks": true,
    "folder_exclude_patterns": [".sass-cache", "languages", ".phpintel", "node_modules"],
    "file_exclude_patterns": [".DS_Store", "style-expanded.css", "*.map"]
}

    Note: Replace ~/Documents/wordpress path with your local WordPress folder path.

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