WordPress on Heroku

This project can help you directly deploy a newer version of WordPress on Heroku environment. It also has the Woocommerce plugin installed as well, which is the biggest open source e-commerce CMS over the world.

This repo uses latest version of WordPress and the minimal configuration needed to get everything up online on Heroku in 3 minutes!

as for now this repo uses WordPress 4.7.2 and Woocommerce 2.6.13

3 Minutes Installation

Just open the terminal and you're ready to go!

Step 1: Clone this repo to your local:

git clone https://github.com/tonyjohnvan/heroku-wordpress.git
cd heroku-wordpress

Step 2: Run this command to generate the composer.lock:

composer update --ignore-platform-reqs

Step 3: Run this commands to prepare the heroku server:

heroku login

after entering your email address and password, you may proceed with:

heroku create
heroku addons:add cleardb
heroku addons:add sendgrid

Step 4: Run this commands to setup heroku server environment vars

it's much safer than just write them in your code, and you can use this WordPress Official API to generate the values

heroku config:set AUTH_KEY = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'
heroku config:set SECURE_AUTH_KEY = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'
heroku config:set LOGGED_IN_KEY = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'
heroku config:set NONCE_KEY = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'
heroku config:set AUTH_SALT = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'
heroku config:set SECURE_AUTH_SALT = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'
heroku config:set LOGGED_IN_SALT = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'
heroku config:set NONCE_SALT = 'REPLEACE_WITH_YOURS'

Step 5: Final step - Deploy the Application!

git add .
git commit -am "initial push"
git push heroku master
heroku open

ps: if you don't like the free CLEARDB that heroku had, you can update it wih any MySQLDB service, just set the environment var by:

heroku config:set DATABASE_URL='mysql://USERNAME:PASSWORD@DB_HOST_NAME/DB_NAME'

and heroku and wordpress will take care of it.

Add Plugins and Themes

if you wish to add more themes and plugins to your wordpress service, remember it cannot be added through the plugin search within the wordpress, you have to add it manually in your wordpress file system and push it to heroku:

just unzip the downloaded plugins and themes and copy it to the wordpress folder

• for the plugins, just copy them to wp-content/plugins directory
• for the themes, just copy them to wp-content/themes directory, note a Theme named Test should be in wp-content/themes/test. Your Theme may provide this directory as part of the archive.

then commit and push the modifications in terminal

git add .
git commit -am "adding themes and plugins"
git push heroku master
heroku open

Then go to your WordPress server and you'll see the plugins and theme waiting to be activated in the admin panel.

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