Install Morden/Varia WordPress theme on blog.osm.org

[grischard]

The theme on supporting.osm.org looks much more modern than the old one on blog.osm.org.

Install these two through chef:

https://wordpress.com/theme/varia (parent theme)
https://wordpress.com/theme/morden (child theme)

Don't activate it yet.

[grischard]

Grant and I were trying to remember what the issue was with chef'ing these. https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/blob/071a853199b7045f4fe496a12495c52cafad7126/cookbooks/wordpress/resources/theme.rb#L47-L65 seems to only allow installing from git and svn, which in some cases isn't the same as the zipfile. Setting up a private repo is just kicking the snofwlake down the road. The "proper" way of doing this for wordpress themes and plugins is with wp-cli.

[grischard]

Alternatively, we accept that the civicrm and blog wordpresses will have plugins and themes installed with a .zip download, or as snowflakes manually - we back these up every night anyway.

[tomhughes]

Won't wp-cli just make API calls to wordpress to do the install? Which won't work as our permissions don't allow the web server context to write to the themes or extensions...

[grischard]

Ah, yes, I remember now, that's why we haven't done that - it was a permissions issue. Wp-cli can run as any user, but it needs to run as someone who has write access, and there was a wordpress/www-data conflict.

[grischard]

And the theme wasn't the same as the svn because there was some compilation of css assets going on (and cheffing that would be madness)

[grischard]

Draft PR to allow installing themes by zip: openstreetmap/chef#660

[grischard]

Testing this for supporting.osm.org on openstreetmap/chef#661

[grischard]

Waiting to see if Kevin wants another theme

[grischard]

It's working well on supporting.openstreetmap.org, but needed a bit of dancing to activate the chef'd theme: it had two directories, morden and morden-wpcom, varia and varia-wpcom. I had to delete the old directories without -wpcom.