WordPress Composer Installer

Install WordPress through composer. So much win!.

What is it?

Custom WordPress installer

Intended to develop webapps while using modern web technologies like composer and autoloading.

• Install WordPress through Composer to it's own directory.
• Includes a base-theme for rapid development. But feel free to use your own.
• Leverage the power of composer autoloading.
• Multiple configuration files for local, staging or production.

Why?

Because WordPress is a dependency itself!

• We need tools to bring WordPress development to the modern age.
• A nice alternative to git submodules.
• Take advantage of modern tools like autoloading, package and dependency management.

Instructions

• First clone this repository.

git clone git@github.com:scrubmx/wordpress-install.git webapp

• Then just cd into your webapp directory and run:

[sudo] composer install

• Set the WP_HOME in the root wp-config.php file. Don't forget to include the 'http://' and no trailing slash.

define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://example.com' );

• Finally set your database credentials in the app/config/wordpress.php file.

define('DB_NAME', 'database_name');
define('DB_USER', 'database_username');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'database_password');

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For extra points you can create different configurations for each environment simply set APP_ENV And create a directory with the same name and place your configuration file there.

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## Structure

The project files are organized like so:

webapp
    |-- app
    |    |-- config
    |    |    `-- wordpress.php    ⇐ Place all your configurations here.
    |    |
    |    |-- content
    |    |    |-- plugins          ⇐ WordPress plugins directory.
    |    |    `-- themes           ⇐ WordPress themes directory.
    |    |
    |    `-- tests
    |
    |-- .gitignore                 ⇐ Exclude wordpress core and vendor directories.
    |-- .htaccess                  ⇐ Boilerplate htaccess for pretty permalinks.
    |-- composer.json
    |-- index.php
    |-- phpunit.xml
    |-- vendor
    |-- wordpress                  ⇐ WordPress core files.
    `-- wp-config.php

Inspiration

• This repository was inspired by the Using Composer with WordPress article by @swalkinshaw
• Also leverages the fancyguy/webroot-installer to install WordPress in the correct location.

License

Open sourced software under the MIT license