WordPress Project Skeleton

Description

SMFB Dinamo starter code for a WordPress project.

Install

There are few possible options to use this skeleton:

• Create new project with Composer:

  composer create-project wp-digital/wp-project-skeleton
  

• Create new project on GitHub from this template.

• Alternative way is to clone this repo:

  git clone git@github.com:wp-digital/wp-project-skeleton.git <name>
  

Find @TODO: ... in code and replace with needed settings.

Documentation

Install plugins, mu-plugins, PHP packages

Manage dependencies with Composer. To install e.g. plugins use:

composer require innocode-digital/wp-hybrid-lazy-loading
composer require wpackagist-plugin/wp-crontrol

Update WordPress core, plugins, mu-plugins, PHP packages

All updates should be done through Composer. To update e.g. WordPress core use:

composer update johnpbloch/wordpress

To update all dependencies (core, plugins, PHP packages):

composer update

Normally project should be initialized with new .env file after create-project command but if it was not created or other method was used to create project then it's possible to initialize .env with next command:

composer run-script wp-init

If you want to install some theme as dependency then remember to add it to .gitignore.

Cron

By default, WordPress cron is disabled, but it's possible to enable it through environment variable:

USE_WP_CRON=true

There is a possibility to use server-side cron. It's needed to do next steps to make it run:

1. Make script executable: chmod +x ./bin/run-wp-cron
2. Test script: ./bin/run-wp-cron
3. Set server-side cron e.g. with per each 5 minutes: */5 * * * * /path/to/bin/run-wp-cron

Caveats

Install premium extensions from metabox.io

See documentation metabox.io on how to do it in general. Keep in mind that storing of the API Key in project composer.json is not a good idea, since it could be situation that project will be taken by someone else, so the API Key may be accidentally shared. To add private source to repositories, you can add it in global config with the following command composer config repositories.metabox\.io composer https://packages.metabox.io/<API Key> --global or edit $HOME/.composer/config.json manually:

{
    "config": {},
    "repositories": {
        "metabox.io": {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://packages.metabox.io/<API Key>"
        }
    }
}

Then it should be possible to add extensions to project:

composer require meta-box/meta-box-group:dev-master