Wordpress Skeleton

Thin wrapper around wp-skeleton-installer to easly install WordPress and get it works.

What it does

Install selected plugins and a custom theme for a clean starting WordPress:

• wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-installer (version ^3.0) is needed for this wrapper to work properly
• wpackagist-plugin/w3-total-cache (version ^0.9)
• wpackagist-plugin/wordpress-seo (version ^3.0)
• wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-theme
• wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-theme-demo
• leafo/lessphp (version ^0.5) to compile LESS files
• and an .htaccess that include rewriterules for LESS files, compression and expires headers.

Install libraries for an easy custom integration:

• bootstrap (version ~3.0) is a front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
• font-awesome (version ~4.0) is an iconic font for easy scalable vector graphics.
• jquery (version <2.0) is the most used javascript library.
• modernizr (version ~3.0) is a javascript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 in user browser.
• underscore provides a lot of useful javascript helpers.
• console-polyfill is a light library to makes it safe to do console.log().

Installation

$ git clone [email protected]:wemakecustom/wp-skeleton.git <project>
$ cd <project>
$ composer install

If you doesn't need the wp-skeleton-theme-demo theme:

$ composer install --no-dev

By default, at the end, you will get WordPress and all configs files installed in <project>/htdocs/ subfolder. To configure another subfolder, please see section configuration bellow.

After that, you have to create the WordPress tables in the database with wp-cli, a command-line tools for managing WordPress. You can read more information here about wp core install command.

$ bin/wp core install --path=htdocs/ --url=<url> --title=<site-title> --admin_user=<username> --admin_password=<password> --admin_email=<email>

Then, finish by running bower to get all recent script up to date in <project>/htdocs/wp-content/components/.

$ bower install

Configuration

The following section in composer.json allow you to change the folder where WordPress and the config files are installed. For details about this section, please see wp-skeleton-installer.

{
    "extra": {
        "wordpress-install-dir": "vendor/wordpress/wordpress",
        "web-dir": "htdocs",
        "installer-paths": {
            "htdocs/wp-content/plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
            "htdocs/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-muplugin"],
            "htdocs/wp-content/themes/composer/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-theme"]
        }
    }
}