These commands come in handy when setting up new wp installs with the successor of roots, https://roots.io/sage/.

setup-wordpress-with-sage.bash

# download & unzip latest, to be executed in /sites folder
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz  && tar xfz latest.tar.gz && rm latest.tar.gz

# move to theme directory
cd wordpress/wp-content/themes/

# clone sage theme: https://roots.io/sage/
git clone https://github.com/roots/sage.git theme-name

# delete standard themes
rm -rf twenty*

# install packages
cd theme-name && npm install

# install dependencies
bower install