MultiPressDev v3.0

Overview

Run all* the WordPress versions in a single Vagrant VM. Allows easily cross version WordPress plugin development or multi-version testing. Runs in an Ubuntu 14.04 VM with PhpMyAdmin and accessed via http://localhost:8080.

(*version 3.3.3 unsupported, all others work)

Install

Prerequisites

You should have git installed, of course, as well as Vagrant and Virtual Box installed before starting. To ensure these are all set up, test with these commands. Each one should output a version:

git --version
vagrant --version
VBoxManage --version

If you're missing one, go install it before going further!

As well, you should have enough disk space to provision an Ubuntu 14 VM, ~1GB.

Download and Boot

WARNING - every vagrant provision or vagrant up of vagrant will DELETE your WordPress Database. Your plugins will be untouched, of course. Otherwise, steps to install are:

1. Clone this repo
2. cd into the repo
3. type vagrant up
4. Go to http://localhost:8080/ in a browser
5. Enjoy!

Note - You're installing 20+ versions of WordPress. The install process might take a few minutes!

Auto provision plugins

If you're a plugin developer you can copy your plugin into the "plugins" folder. When MultiPressDev provisions each instance of WordPress, it will symlink in the plugin directory to each instance. You will then need to log in and activate the plugin. This will allow you to easily test your plugin on all the different versions.

If you've already run vagrant up before you copied in your plugins, no problem! Just copy the your plugin to the plugin folder, vagrant ssh to connect to your guest and then sudo su - to become root and finally run /bin/bash /vagrant/provision/create_symlinks.sh. The symlinks will be recreated.

Hard Reset of all WordPress versions

If you've been tinkering with core files for any of the installs or want to reset all files, you can first vagrant ssh to connect to your guest and then sudo su - to become root. Finally run /bin/bash /vagrant/provision/provision_wordpress.sh which will remove all WP install directories and recreate them from the original zip file.

Any plugins you're working on will remain untouched by this reset. As well, this procedure will not reset your database like vagrant up or vagrant provision. `

Supported versions

Currently, MultiPressDev supports the following versions of WordPress: 4.2.2, 4.1.5, 4.0.5, 3.9.6, 3.8.8, 3.7.8, 3.6.1, 3.5.1, 3.4.2, 3.3.3, 3.2.1, 3.1.4, 3.0.6, 2.9.2, 2.8.6, 2.7.1, 2.6.5, 2.5.1, 2.3.3, 2.2.3, 2.1.3, 2.0.11 and 1.5.2.

NOTE - There is a known bug in MultiPressDev which means that it does not support version 3.3.3.

Log In Credientials

WordPress log in is:

• login: admin
• password: password

MySQL log in is:

• login: root
• password: NULL (no password set)

Release History

3.0 - 7.4.15

• make vagrant up and vagrant provisin go faster (see #9)
• add new provision_wordpress.sh and create_symlinks.sh scripts (see #9)
• fix links to issues in README.md

2.2 - 6.28.15

• Add PMA (see #8)

2.1.2 - 5.17.15

• Fix bug where we didn't apt-get update and had some key code commented out for v2.1 release (see #6)

2.1 - 5.16.15

• Move to one single tarball for feature #2
• Clean up install script
• Explicitly state what we're gonna nuke on install (DB and Core, but not plugins)
• Introduce bug where WP v3.3.3 is broken. Fix TBD, but error log shows PHP Fatal error: Access to undeclared static property: WP_Screen::$this.

2.0 - 5.8.15

• Add caching for already download versions
• Add versions 1.5.2 - 4.2.2 of WordPress
• Introduce bug where 1.5.2 - 2.5.1 are broken. Fix TBD, but error log shows PHP Warning: require_once(/vagrant/provision/config/wp-settings.php).

1.4 - 5.8.15

• Ahem, instruct folks to install VirtualBox too. Kinda important.

1.3 - 5.8.15

• Allow plugins to easily be added
• Remove option for wordpress.dev, localhost is just easier to set up.

1.2 - 5.8.15

• Fix release dates (April != May)
• Allow localhost

1.1 - 5.2.15

• Add loop in provision script
• Fix missing "wordpress" folder

1.0 - 5.1.15

• Initial release to port from using latest to static versions of WP
• Only support 4.2.1 and 4.1.4 for now