Thunderpress

A slim WordPress stack inspired heavily by Bedrock.

Features

• Uses Mina for deploy management.
• Includes the wp-parsedown plugin to convert WordPress to a Markdown-only CMS.
• Adds several other common and useful plugins out of the box.
• Uses PHP dotenv for more secure site config
• Uses environment-specific config files

Requirements

• PHP 5.5 or later
• Composer

Installation

1. Clone this repo, or download a release.
2. Run composer install.
3. Copy .env.example to .env and modify your config parameters (see below).
4. Add any bespoke plugins/themes (be sure to update your .gitignore so they'll be tracked).
5. Set your host's document root to /path/to/vhost/web (or /path/to/vhost/current/web if you're using Mina for deploys).
6. Go!

Your site's WP Admin will be available at http://example.com/wp/wp-admin.

Environment Variables

Note: Never track your .env file in git!

Site Environment

; Default values shown
WP_ENV     = 'development'
WP_HOME    = 'http://example.com'
WP_SITEURL = 'http://example.com/wp'

Database

; Default values shown
DB_NAME     = 'database_name'
DB_USER     = 'database_user
DB_PASSWORD = 'database_password'
DB_HOST     = 'localhost'
DB_PREFIX   = 'wp_'

Keys/Salts
You can generate these automatically with composer run-script salts.

AUTH_KEY         = ''
SECURE_AUTH_KEY  = ''
LOGGED_IN_KEY    = ''
NONCE_KEY        = ''
AUTH_SALT        = ''
SECURE_AUTH_SALT = ''
LOGGED_IN_SALT   = ''
NONCE_SALT       = ''

Optional Settings

; Use another WordPress site in your data to manage users
WP_USER_TABLE      = ''
WP_USER_META_TABLE = ''

; Adjust PHP settings
WP_MEMORY_LIMIT = '128M'

; Analytics tracking (see below)
GA_PROPERTY_ID = 'your_property_id'

Deploying

Make sure mina is installed before continuing:

gem install mina

1. Edit config/deploy.rb to set up global parameters.

2. To configure a target, copy the example environment.rb.example file to <target>.rb, where <target> is the name of the environment you want to deploy to. You can have as many target environments as you want.

3. Set up the deploy directory on the server:

   mina setup server=<target>

4. You can deploy to an environment using any branch, commit or tag:

   # Uses master branch by default
   mina deploy server=<target>
   
   # Specify a branch
   mina deploy server=<target> branch=<branch-name>
   
   # Specify a commit
   mina deploy server=<target> commit=<commit-sha>
   
   # Specify a tag
   mina deploy server=<target> tag=<tag-name>

Other Stuff

Google Analytics

Thunderpress includes a built-in plugin (not must-use, you have to activate it) that will automatically add your Google Analytics tracking script. To use it:

1. Activate the plugin
2. Set the GA_PROPERTY_ID environment variable in .env
3. That's it—the script will be added to your pages automatically.

Note: The tracking script will not be added if you're logged in with admin/editing capabilities.