We Sort. Starter Kit

A starting place for a Statamic site. Started Aug 2025.

Features

• SALT: Statamic (CMS), Alpine (JS), Laravel (PHP), Tailwind (CSS)
• Core components for a responsive, accessible site
• Dev panel
• Page access controls
• Assets stored on DigitalOcean Space

Install

• Create site in Laravel Forge with a suitable domain
• Forge > Issue SSL certificate
• Forge > Clone repository: github.com/wesort/starter with composer install
• SSH into server > nav into site directory
• Copy docs/dev.env to .env and edit as required
• Generate application key: php artisan key:generate
• NPM install: npm ci
• NPM build: npm run build
• Load the website and test it works.
• Start a new repo: rm -rf .git .env > git init > Create repo.
• Go build something with it.

Credits

• We Sort: development and primary user
• Statamic Peak by Rob de Kort for it's fluid grid system
• Bard Mutator to auto add anchor tags to headings