💻 WP starting pack v1.0

This script offers a modern workflow to manage Wordpress installation and setup very seamsly. Through a user prompt in the command line you can:

• Install the latest version of Wordpress with Composer.
• Setup WP core in a custom directory (site up and running in http://localhost/yoursite).
• Move wp-config.php from WP core directory (https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/58391/is-moving-wp-config-outside-the-web-root-really-beneficial).
• Create DB in your local system (if it doesn't exist).
• Custom wp-content directory, outside WP folder (the script does the needed modifications to wp-config.php file).
• Installation and activation of your prefered plugins (a set of common plugins are predefined).
• WP-SYNC plugin installation, to manage your DB through differents enviroments.

In 2 minutes, you will have a fresh Wordpress installation, with a lot of security and performance tweaks, plugins and more.

👽 Where's the magic?

It manages Wordpress installation with Composer. Set up is done with WP-CLI and BASH scripting.

WP starting pack is an internal project of Atias Web, a web design and development company. It hasn't been developed from scratch, but by putting together many techinques and methods.

We want to make of it a maintainable and stable alternative for launching fresh and highly top-notch WP install.

Furthermore, we have GIT and Continous Integration in mind, so whoever in the team can build up and recreate the project in any devolopment enviroment.

✏️ System requeriments:

Before getting started, make sure you have installed, up and running:

• PHP 5.3.2+
• Composer: https://getcomposer.org/.
• WP CLI: https://wp-cli.org/

It has been tested on Mac OS. It should works on Linux systems as well.

🏃 Getting started

1. In terminal, go to the project folder and type (as root, or using sudo):

$ composer install
$ chmod +x wpconfigure.sh
$ ./wpconfigure.sh

✋ To do:

• Configure multi-enviroment through the command prompt setup (https://github.com/studio24/wordpress-multi-env-config or similar).
• Generate salt keys in wp-config files.
• Custom underscore Wordpress theme.
• WP core as a GIT submodule.
• Random generate a random WP password (and copy it to clipboard).
• Handle Wordpress download and installation with WP CLI instead of Composer.

⁉️ Reported issues

"env: mysql: No such file or directory" error: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44440064/env-mysql-no-such-file-or-directory-after-wp-import#44856936

"Unable to connect to MySQL server": MAMP or local server not running (yeah, this happens) 😅.

Error: Error establishing a database connection. This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost: https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/installing/#using-a-custom-php-binary and wp-cli/wp-cli#2662

📚 References

1. https://github.com/micahblu/wp-launchpad
2. http://roots.io/using-composer-with-wordpress/
3. https://deliciousbrains.com/how-why-install-wordpress-core-subdirectory/