/WordPress-Skeleton

Basic layout of a WordPress Git repository. I use this as a base when creating a new repo.

Primary LanguagePHP

WordPress Skeleton

Downloading This repository

You can get this to work in two ways, via .git or download it manually

Donwloading via Git

In the webroot run:

git clone https://github.com/janw-oostendorp/WordPress-Skeleton.git .

This will download the base, next we download the WordPress submodule.

git submodule update --init

If needed add your own remote repository

git remote rm origin git remote add origin YOUR_REPOSITORY.URL/

Manual download

Download the zip and unzip it in the webroot. Download Wordpress unzip it in the /wp folder.

How to install

After downloading you can continue to install WordPress

  1. Copy local-config.sample.php and rename it to local-config.php
  2. Add the database constants and the domain
  3. In wp-config.php Edit the $table_prefix
  4. add the *_KEY constants which can be generated here
  5. open your website and continue with the famous 5 minute install.

Quickstart with docker

  1. copy local-config.sample.php as local-config.php

  2. edit local-config.php and set DB_NAME / DB_USER / DB_PASSWORD to wpdemo, point DB_HOST and WP_HOME to your docker host (e.g. docker-machine ip default)

  3. launch apache & mysql:

     export WWW_DIR=/path/to/WordPress-Skeleton
 docker-compose build
 docker-compose up

  4. open your website and continue with the famous 5 minute install.

Benefits

  • WordPress is in it's own folder /wp.
  • Webroot only has two folders /wp and /content
  • Automatic updates are enabled for production, adding more security.
  • Error display and logging are setup. On production errors will be logged, on test the will be shown.