wordpress-boilerplate

This is a boilerplate and installation script for Wordpress with the WP core as a dependency and some other stuff.

Assumptions

• You want to have multiple runtime environments for development and production.
• You want a better folder structure for your Wordpress installation
• You want to automate some setup steps
• you want to use https on your site

Running the installer will…

• Download and unpack the current stable Wordpress core in your language of choice
• Migrate the language files from core
• Rename the core and wp-content folders
• Create an uploads folder outside of wp-content
• Set runtime environment configurations.
• Create a random DB prefix
• Create fresh secret keys for each runtime environment.
• Install a couple of MU-Plugins

Instructions

1. Extract the distribution zip in your web root as wordpress-boilerplate
2. Surf to http://your_host.dev/wordpress-boilerplate/
3. Follow the instructions
4. Double check wp-config.php and edit your environment configs wp-config-*.php
5. Set your environment (see below), default is 'dev'
6. Continue with the usual Wordpress install in http://your_host.dev

Setting the environment

Via config file

Create or edit a file /wp-config-environment.php with a content like

<?php

define('WP_SERVER_ENVIRONMENT', 'production');

Nginx

Add to your server setting:

location / {
   fastcgi_param   WP_SERVER_ENVIRONMENT  env;
}

Apache

Add to your to your VirtualHost or Location section:

SetEnv WP_SERVER_ENVIRONMENT env

changelog

1.3.1

• fix environment fallbacks

1.3.0

• moved from bower to npm
• simplified the mu-plugins
• forced-https is a default now
• improved config defaults for installation
• improved and cleaned up .htaccess template
• improved wp-config-creation routine
• fixed string replacement in template compilation
• refactored the core class

1.2.1

• little stuff and tests
• added security to htaccess

1.2.0

• added wpnp-sanitize-upload as mu-plugin
• added automatic SSL protocol detection
• added db repair constant to wp-config
• bugfix corrected upload folder after environment change
• bugfix wp debugging mode

1.1.0

• added version option
• added install from domain root in htaccess
• renamed htaccess and gitignore
• bugfix wpnp-server-env

1.0.0

• added upload folder settings
• added mu-plugin for wp init and sanitize file uploads
• added a lot of constants to wp-config
• added a lot to .htaccess
• streamlined runtime environments and debug settings