WP is terrible with its template inheritance, and Sage theme essentially solves that problem for you. You will need to write absolute minimum for your template

WP is terrible with its template inheritance, and Sage theme essentially solves that problem for you. You will need to write absolute minimum for your templates using standard PHP. Here is a link to their latest beta version which uses webpack and all the new goodies: https://github.com/roots/sage https://github.com/roots/sage However, if you're more comfortable with using Twig, there is a fork of Sage that uses Twig: https://github.com/studiorabota/sage-twig-theme https://github.com/studiorabota/sage-twig-theme (but it uses gulp and older tech).