WordPress Scaffold CLI

Installation

$ npm i -g @nomadmystic/wordpress-scaffold-cli

NOTE: This packages uses node version >=18.x

Commands

Help:

$ wps --help

Initialize Project

$ wps --pi
$ wps --project-init

Uses the WP-CLI to download the core files, creates the config needed for DB if specified, scaffolds internal files/folders, generates/updates JSON configs, adds common development files, installs the core DB and admin user, and initializes a git repo if not one already.

• User Prompts:
  • Project Name (String), Namespace of your WordPress site, used in namespacing PHP classes
  • Database Setup (Boolean), Asks if you have setup a local DB for the site (NOTE: WILL OVERWRITE DB at the moment)
    • Database Name (String), DB name
    • Database Password (String), DB password
    • Database Username (String), DB Username
  • Site Title (String), Used in wp core install command
  • Site Admin User (String), Admin user for the site
  • Admin Email (String), Admin email
  • Site Admin Password (String), Admin password for the site
  • Site Url (String), Production URL for your site
  • Dev Site Url (String), Development URL for your site

$ ws-scaffold-plugin (Future Release)

Initialize Theme

$ wps --t
$ wps --theme

• User Prompts:
  • Project Name (String), Namespace of your WordPress site, used in namespacing PHP classes
  • Theme Name (String), Name of your theme
  • Theme Description (String), Description for your theme
  • FrontEnd Framework (Array['None', 'Vue.js 3']), Choose if you want Vue.js added to your project
  • Site Url (String), Production URL for your site
  • Dev Site Url (String), Development URL for your site

Bootstrap Class and hook reflection

In both the plugin and theme scaffolding I include a BootstrapClasses class which auto instantiates classes it finds in the composer.json psr-4 namespaces object.

This uses reflection to hook directly into the WordPress hook system.

Doc Properties:

@add_action 
@add_filter
@priority (optional, defaults to 10)

Examples:

Filter:

/**
 * @description This filters the content
 * @add_filter the_content 
 * 
 * @param string $content
 * @return string
 */
public function some_filter_method(string $content): string
{
    // Do something with content
    
    return $content;
}

Action:

/**
 * @description This enqueues scripts
 * @add_action wp_enqueue_scripts
 * 
 * @return void
 */
public function some_action_method(): void
{
    // Enqueue some scripts
}

Action with Priority:

/**
 * @description This enqueues scripts
 * @add_action wp_enqueue_scripts
 * @priority 100
 * 
 * @return void
 */
public function some_action_method(): void
{
    // Enqueue some scripts
}

Setup

Create WordPress Project

User will need to take care of setting up hosts and DNS. Not going to scaffold this because of 
varying local setups. i.e. apache/Nginx bare-metal, Docker e.t.c

DB Setup

$ sudo mysql
$ CREATE DATABASE <DATABSE_NAME>;
$ GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <DATABSE_NAME>.* TO "<DATABASE_USER>"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "<DATABASE_PASSWORD>";
$ FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
$ EXIT;

Project Setup

$ mkdir <YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>
$ cd <YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>
$ wps --project-init

Theme Setup

$ cd <YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>
$ wps --theme

Development

Initial Setup

$ git clone git@github.com:nomad-mystic/wordpress-scaffold-cli.git ./scaffold-cli
$ cd scaffold-cli
$ nvm use
$ npm i
$ npm run dev:tsc | npm run dev | npm run production:build 

Local dev commands

$ npm run dev:wps -- --version
$ npm run dev:wps -- --help
$ npm run dev:wps -- --project-init
$ npm run dev:wps -- --theme
$ npm run dev:wps -- --plugin

Package Testing

$ npm pack ./ --pack-destination="<PATH_TO_FOLDER>"
$ cd <PATH_TO_FOLDER>
$ npm i -g <PACKAGE_NAME>
$ cd <YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>
$ wps --help
$ wps --version

For testing this package in a non-WordPress root folder copy ./env.example to ./.env and update values

Resources

• https://wordpress.org/support/article/creating-database-for-wordpress/
• https://wp-cli.org/
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/
• https://vuejs.org/
• https://sass-lang.com/
• https://webpack.js.org/
• https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

CLI command flow chart