WordPress Boilerplate is a simple starting point which includes WordPress as a submodule, the required configurations and a dummy plugin & theme structure.
Typically, WordPress installations are a spaghetti of the WordPress core, plugins, themes and what have you. This makes upgrading WordPress a pain. The point of this boilerplate is to keep the WordPress core and everything else cleanly separated. This is achieved by using git submodules and some config hacking and Apache redirects :)
Clone the repository:
git clone --recursive git://github.com/Darep/wordpress-boilerplate.git
And remove this origin repository from your working copy:
cd wordpress-boilerplate
git remote rm origin
Add your new origin repository to your working copy:
git remote add origin <url_here>
After installing this boilerplate, keeping Wordpress up-to-date via git is pretty easy.
Go to the submodule directory:
cd wordpress
Fetch the tags from git:
git fetch --tags
Checkout the version you want to upgrade to (e.g. git checkout 3.7.1):
git checkout <tag>
Commit your Wordpress upgrade:
cd ..
git commit -m "Updating wordpress to <tag-name>"
Antti-Jussi Kovalainen. Twitter, GitHub, homepage
- Jasper van Wanrooy (jappievw) : Readme refactoring, Upgrade instructions, gitignore fixes, WP 3.7 security config info
Contributions are most welcome! And well-tested and documented contributions are more welcome than others ;)
- Fork the repository
- Create a branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a pull request
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