An opinionated starter repo for use with Grunt-init. Contains everything you need to automatically bootstrap the codebase for a full WordPress site without keeping your dependencies in version control.
Y'know. Dependencies. The things you trust other people to maintain and therefore keep out of your own repo. Things like:
- Plugins
- Themes
- Yes, even the WP core.
Pull in the core/plugins/themes at deploy time and put everything...in its right place. It's not rocket science.
$ git clone git@github.com:acobster/grunt-init-wordpress-pristine.git ~/.grunt-init/wordpress-pristine
$ grunt-init wordpress-pristine
After answering some basic questions about your new WordPress project, edit your composer.json file and configure your desired plugins as dependencies (you should have been prompted for a theme already). This architecture assumes you are following the WPackagist convention by declaring themes and plugins as composer packages. More info about this convention here.
Once you've configured your theme and plugins (and also set up your MySQL database), run:
$ npm install
$ grunt start
Answer the prompts and you'll have a working WordPress website running with a document root of public!
When setting up the DNS for your WordPress site, set the document root to public/ directory of this repo. Configuration is driven by a config.json file that lives outside of the web root, keeping your sensitive data that much safer. public/wp/wp-config.php reads environment configurations from this JSON file instead of declaring constants like DB_PASSWORD directly.