WordPress Subdirectory Clean

Provides a clean initial structure for setting up WordPress (trunk) in a subdirectory with a separate content directory. Once this repository is cloned, the origin can be removed and your repo can live on elsewhere as it changes.

WordPress is provided via submodule from github.com/WordPress/WordPress, which tracks the WordPress SVN repository and updates every 15 minutes.

Getting started is easy.

1. Decide which directory this site will live in.
2. Clone this repo to that directory - git clone git://github.com/jeremyfelt/wordpress-subdirectory-clean.git my-new-wordpress-site
3. Initialize and update the WordPress submodule in the repository - cd my-new-wordpress-site - git submodule init - git submodule update - At this point, if you don't want WordPress trunk, you can checkout another branch from the submodule.
   • cd wordpress
   • git checkout 3.4-branch
4. Configure your HTTP server to point to your my-new-wordpress-site directory
5. Add a new database to MySQL and setup user permissions
6. Configure and move required files to their proper names - mv configure-gitignore .gitignore - mv configure-local-config.php local-config.php - mv configure-wp-config.php wp-config.php
7. Go to your new domain and install WordPress

Then put it under version control!

1. Stop tracking this clone, there's no need to. - git remote rm origin
2. Create a new repository, if you want, on another remote - git remote add my-new-git-remote-url
3. Update your WordPress submodule regularly - git submodule update
4. New plugins and themes are installed in my-new-wordpress-site/content/
5. Use this to keep your local and production environments in tune.